Commentaries by Bill Frelick

Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet

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Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet

December 18, 2020 09:00:42 am

The Teitiota family from a little-known Pacific island didn’t intend to become a catalyst for expanding the concept of asylum—but they became one anyway. In 2015, New Zealand denied the family’s asylum claim and deported them, despite the parents’ plea that their three children’s health and well-being were at risk amid crop failure, withering coconut [...]

THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court upheld wartime detention of Japanese-Americans

On December 18, 1944, the US Supreme Court decided Korematsu v. United States, upholding the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Read Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, under which the internments were authorized. View photos from the Japanese American internment camps, collected by the University of Utah Library.

International Migrants Day

December 18 is International Migrants Day, marking the 1990 adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.