{"id":1105,"date":"2022-06-09T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=1105"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:07","slug":"the-immigration-national-security-nexus-balancing-security-openness-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-36-issue-3-spring-2022\/the-immigration-national-security-nexus-balancing-security-openness-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immigration &amp; National Security Nexus: Balancing Security, Openness, and Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration to the United States stretches back hundreds of years, and a review of its arc shows that at different points in history, the flow of people to its shores has been managed\u2014and manipulated\u2014in different ways. Analyzing the National Security Strategies (NSS) of three successive modern administrations will show that contemporary American immigration policy has been used as a clandestine tool to support the country\u2019s needs: First, for the sake of economic progress, then to meet national security demands, and now, a mix of both. In conducting this review, noting the inflection point in policy caused by 9\/11, and raising awareness of climate change\u2019s impact, the reader should understand that if America continues to wield immigration policy as a tool to manage national security, it must do so openly, intentionally, and humanely to be effective.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/06\/GT-GILJ220024.pdf\"><em><strong>The Immigration &amp; National Security Nexus: Balancing Security, Openness, and Humanity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/06\/GT-GILJ220024.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">GT-GILJ220024<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration to the United States stretches back hundreds of years, and a review of its arc shows that at different points in history, the flow of people to its shores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"parent":1079,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1105\/revisions\/1107"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}