RT Article
T1 The Power to Exclude: the (Mis)Treatment of unaccompanied minors under the Trump and Biden administration
JF Human rights review
VO 25
IS 2
SP 155
OP 177
A1 Gerken, Christina
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1895962196
AB In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees.” Three years into his presidency, how far has the Biden Administration come in their efforts to create a more humane asylum system? And has the treatment of unaccompanied minors seen any significant improvements? This article examines the Trump Administration’s attempts to permanently alter the US asylum system. After trying to categorically ban all claims that were based on persecution by “private actors,” the Trump Administration seized on the COVID-19 pandemic as a convenient pretext for taking away even some of the most basic human rights protections that asylum-seekers have enjoyed for generations. This article will argue that the Biden Administration, despite their efforts to restore some basic protections, continues to criminalize and institutionalize many unaccompanied minors.
K1 Gangs
K1 Gender
K1 Title 42
K1 Unaccompanied minors
K1 Asylum
DO 10.1007/s12142-024-00721-y