By Isaac Cui (PO ’20) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), colloquially called Obamacare, is back in the federal district courts. On February 26, 2018, 20 states, led by Texas, filed suit against the United States seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the Affordable Care Act. While the remedy sought sounds drastic, the…
By Isaac Cui (PO ‘20), Senior Editor Introduction On February 10, Daniel Ramirez Medina was taken by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and placed in detention to await deportation proceedings. Having come to the United States at the age of seven, the 24-year-old registered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.[1] DACA…
Isaac Cui PO ‘20 Introduction On January 25, 2017, Donald Trump issued two sweeping executive orders which removed many of the previous administration’s policies regarding immigration enforcement in favor of a stringent, restrictionist approach. More specifically, one[1] punishes so-called sanctuary policies for causing “immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of…
