No doubt you’ve heard about the President’s latest move to secure the southern border by putting a strip of land along the border under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense thus making it...
Some immigration activists evidently fear people might actually learn something from listening to the other side of a dialogue about the difficult issues immigration engenders. At Georgetown Law School last Monday (Oct 7) they...
The Aspen Security Forum hosted a number of luminaries including one of America’s greatest, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She was interviewed by Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, on the topic of “Democracy Under Siege: The Rise...
Activists for illegal immigrants often seem to assume that they occupy the ethical high ground. To a degree, that’s true; after all, trying to help those in need is obviously a highly-commendable enterprise. That...
On the heels of the President’s proclamation of a national emergency at the southern border, 16 states filed a lawsuit opposing it. Putting aside the politics of the issue, I think the law involved is...
With the announcement last week that thousands of additional troops will be sent to the border to help surveil the “vast areas” between ports entry, it will be interesting to see if we again...
Recently Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was asked to clarify what the new “Cabinet Order“ meant for the use of force by troops at the border, and he explained with this example: “If someone’s...
Last week a panel was presented at Duke Law that was supposed to address “Texas Borders and Immigration Policies” but wound up being mostly a polemic against efforts to secure the border, and included...
I have much agreement with my friend Mark Nevitt’s excellent post addressing some of the issues associated with the use of the military at the border. Unfortunately, in his essay he relies upon the...
The deployment of up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the southern border has garnered not just political controversy, but also discussion about the applicable law. For example, can Governor Jerry Brown restrict California National Guard troops...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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