“The use of the military is a real sea change in policy”: Five Questions to Amanda Frost
Trump signed a slew of executive orders after his inauguration, many of them intended and designed to fundamentally reshape the US’s immigration and naturalization system as we know it. These include, amongst others, a highly publicized order ending birthright citizenship for children of mothers present in the US without legal authorization or on a temporary visa; an order “suspending the entry of anyone engaging in the invasion of the US”, which bars asylum for people arriving at the southern border, and an order declaring migrant crossings along the US-Mexico border to be a national emergency.
We spoke to Amanda Frost, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and the Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program.
After our interview, a federal judge has blocked Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.