Traces the role of the aggravated felony in today’s deportation regimeIn immigration courts across America, a non-citizen convicted of an “aggravated felony” will almost certainly face deportation with no access to asylum. However, despite the ominous-sounding name, aggravated felonies need not be either “aggravated” or “felonies.” The term encompasses more than thirty offenses, ranging from check fraud and shoplifting to filing a false tax return. The recent expan...

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the...

‘I guess you’d better come in and sit down then, Jack. It’s time you knew…’ Jack is a studious and self-absorbed sixteen-year-old, interested in nothing more than getting top marks at school and the pursuit of his own ambitions. He has no time for games, no time for friends, and definitely no time for his younger sister Mia. But as he continues to isolate himself from the world, Jack is propelled back in time into an imaginary world created by his eccentric grandfather many years before. H...