In short order, legal teams formed to represent immigrants who were suddenly detained at airports, with nowhere to go. For Michael J. Wishnie, a Yale law professor involved in that effort, what happened in January was familiar. “It was very much a replay of what I had seen,” he told Retro Report. As a Yale law student in 1991, Professor Wishnie was part of a team that worked on behalf of Haitians who had fled their country by boat after a coup there. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAt stake is the rule of law, Professor Koh told Retro Report.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 01:52 UTC