But they have resisted efforts to take away the president’s ability to grant “humanitarian parole” -- to allow migrants into the U.S. for special cases during emergencies or global unrest. ___ Associated Press writer Stephen Groves contributed to this report. COLLEEN LONG Colleen covers ...
The Humanitarian Affairs Branch (HAB) will first determine whether HAB indeed has jurisdiction over the case and whether the application is time-sensitive, in which case it would be expedited. If HAB finds that it does not have jurisdiction then the case would be sent to ICE for further revie...
How does Foucault define punishment? Foucault ultimately suggests that it isthe use and subjugation of power that influences an institutions use of punishment. He rejects any notion that the development of this system had been motivated by any humanitarian ideals, or that this philosophy of punishmen...
The Biden administration has been working to speed up Title 8 processes by surging hundreds of asylum officers to the border in an effort to more quickly adjudicate humanitarian claims while applying the consequences Title 42 does not carry. Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States walk along...
Because once we had to discuss a real decision, and not imagined, on what is the “normal” ij number of airstrikes where we would continue to operate civil and humanitarian activities and when do we cross the “Ok” number. Because hospitals are underground. Because schools are now undergro...
Well, here comes the Monopoly angle: Germany, in a rare nod to the Geneva Convention, allowed humanitarian groups to distribute care packages to the prisoners and one of the items allowed in those packages were “games and pastimes.” So the British came up with fake charities that sent Mono...
“Ideology, by which I mean a totalizing and closed system that discounts or dismisses whatever does not ‘fit’ within it, has very little use for accurate descriptions of what is going on.”—Jean Bethke Elshtain “We’re all born geniuses, but something in the process of living de-geni...
Throughout and beyond this institutional make-over, reformers and officials intended the penitentiary to be a humanitarian advancement over pre-modern forms of sanctioning and the first prison facilities. However, their interest in whether a more humane and morally healthy system of punishment had evo...