January 20, 2017
Resettling and assisting refugees benefits U.S. national security. Refugees are already very rigorously vetted. Accepting Refugees Helps the United States and Enhances National Security.
National…
January 10, 2017
Over the course of the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump expressed hostility to human rights norms and called into question whether the United States should continue…
January 7, 2017
“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at…
December 30, 2016
As government leaders and lawmakers debate immigration policy reforms, one essential—and often misrepresented—piece of information is the extent to which individuals in immigration removal proceedings…
December 21, 2016
In 2011, Wikileaks released more than 750 assessments of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility done by Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), the military…
November 30, 2016
As government leaders and lawmakers debate immigration policy reforms, one essential—and often misrepresented—piece of information is the extent to which individuals in immigration removal proceedings…
November 22, 2016
In the current version of the Guantanamo military commissions:
Crimes triable: Defendants in military commissions, who were tried ex-post facto for conduct such as “material support…November 18, 2016
FIVE Secretaries of Defense Melvin Laird (1969-1973) Robert Gates (2006-2011) Leon Panetta (2011-2013) Chuck Hagel (2013-2015) Ash Carter (2015-2017) FIVE Chairs of the Joint Chiefs…