The Client Is the Cause: Motivation, Activism, and Cause Lawyering Among Immigration Attorneys in the Trump Era

Teachers in kindergartens and schools also fill an important role of values educators. The study examined teachers’ socialisation values and their links with teachers’ personal values, age, education, and educational setting (kindergarten vs school). A total of 391 teachers in Estonia filled in the Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire that assessed their personal and socialisation values. Teachers considered self-transcendence values most important personally and in socialisation of children, followed by openness to change values. At the same time, teachers differentiated between their personal and socialisation values: openness to change was rated higher as a socialisation than as a personal value. The variation in teachers’ socialisation values stemmed from their personal values, teachers’ age, and educational setting.

Donald Trump's administration has provoked crisis after crisis regarding the United States’ immigration policy, laws, and their enforcement. This has affected millions of immigrants in the U.S. and those hoping to immigrate. Stemming from this, immigration lawyers are providing extraordinary amounts of direct pro bono legal services to immigrants in need. Yet the history of the practice of immigration law has been largely understudied. This article closely examines Chicago's Immigrants’ Protective League between 1910 and 1940. The League provided free counsel to tens of thousands of poor immigrants facing a multitude of immigration-related legal issues during a time when Congress passed increasingly strict immigration laws. The League, always headed by women social workers, created a robust model of immigration advocacy at a time when only a handful of women were professionally trained lawyers. The League's archival documents, manifests how Trump's immigration policies have a long and painful history. U.S. immigration law and its enforcement have consistently been cruel, inhumane, arbitrary, and capricious. Told from the ground up and focusing upon the day-to-day problems that immigrants brought to the League, one dramatically sees how immigration laws and practices were like quicksand, thwarting the legitimate expectations of migrants. The League, in response, participated in creating what would become the practice of immigration law, engaging, and quickly responding to changing laws, rules, policies, and the needs of migrants.

Nowadays Social Systems (SS) are widely used by users who want to interact expressing their thoughts and values in their posts. In this study, we present a research over the values expressed in user posts to investigate the following questions: what are the relationships between personal and social values in the users posts; which social or personal values can express (positively or negatively) the technical values and; how the expression of personal and social values in SS posts can assist in SS evaluation. The results showed that the analysis of values can be used as filters for an empirical assessment of the quality and technical problems of SS as well as a source of knowledge for the construction of new SS requirements.

Lack of data transparency and administrative data quality issues have hindered our understanding of the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States to date. This Dispatch from the Field provides new statistics on nearly a half million unaccompanied minors navigating removal proceedings in US immigration courts nationwide between 2009 and 2023 (through March), including population demographics, geographic location of cases, representation rates, and case outcomes. We extrapolated these statistics, even the most basic of which have not been available to the public since 2017, by using a novel approach that we developed to identify unaccompanied minors in administrative data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review. During the study period, only 51% of unaccompanied children were represented by an immigration attorney at any time during their removal proceedings. There are significant geographic and demographic disparities in representation rates. Representation for unaccompanied minors declined almost every year during the first Trump presidency. Over half (56%) of children's cases on which a decision was reached during the study period ended in a deportation order. More children were ordered deported under the first Trump administration (70% of completed cases) than under either the Obama (51%) or Biden (45%) administrations. Children who were not represented by an attorney were far more likely to be ordered deported.

The securitisation of female asylum seekers by the US Government violates the health rights of women during their stay in family detention centres. The study's methodology relies on semi-structured interviews with directors of shelters for asylum seekers, an immigration judge, migrant rights advocates, a border patrol agent, and immigration attorneys who have represented female asylum seekers with diverse medical conditions at detention centres in Dilley and Karnes, Texas 1. The article begins with an explanation about why Central American women are fleeing to the USA. Informed by securitisation theory, the criminalisation of asylum seekers during the Trump administration between 2017 and early 2019 is analysed. The article acknowledges the diverse vulnerabilities that female detainees face in a patriarchal detention system, such as lack of care for pregnant women and sexual abuse. To conclude, alternatives to detention as a way to protect women's health rights and well-being are proposed.

This Article describes one of the most striking features of the Trump Administration’s immigration policy: the shift in the way discretion operates in the legal immigration system. Unlike other high-profile immigration policies that have been the focus of class action lawsuits and public outcry, the changes to the role of discretion have attracted little attention, in part because they are implemented through low-visibility individualized decisions that are difficult to identify, let alone challenge systemically. After providing historical context regarding the role of discretion in the immigration system before the Trump Administration, I offer four case studies from my immigration practice in Arizona that illustrate discretion’s new role. The cases highlight three key trends that result from the way discretion currently operates in the immigration system: (1) the ever-widening enforcement net; (2) the emboldening of front-line bureaucrats; and (3) the changing bureaucratic culture within United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency that previously had seen its mission as one of integration, but has now shifted to an aggressive enforcement orientation. I close with a final section reflecting on the important role that individual direct representation can play in fighting against the current enforcement regime.

Trump’s draconian immigration policies threatened our sense of common decency so fiercely that few Americans noticed that immigrants also lost all their most important cases in the U.S. Supreme Court during the Trump era. Perhaps their worst loss to date was DHS v. Thurassigiam, which was a parade of horrible firsts. For example, Thuraissigiam was the first SCOTUS decision to judicially suspend the writ of habeas corpus to any class of person with no actual insurrection or invasion in the country. Thuraissigiam was also the first U.S. Supreme Court decision to suspend the writ without first attempting to interpret the law to avoid conflict with the Suspension Clause, and it is the first to decide not to overrule such a law as Marbury v. Madison requires. In the habeas context tracing back to 1789, immigrants were never treated this way. One cannot find judicial treatment this bad of any other class of person throughout our history, including African American slaves, women, our enemies in WWII, the insurrectionists of the Civil War, among other likely classes for mistreatment. Calling Thuraissigiam the “Dred Scott” of our day, despite the obvious similarity of degrading the constitutional rights to those the Court decides are not U.S. Citizens, does not capture the size of the Court’s blunder. Dred Scott’s habeas corpus companion Ableman v. Booth preempted State Court habeas for African Americans, but did not consider whether the Fugitive Slaves Law suspended federal judges from hearing the writ. In Thuraissigiam, the Court did not interpret a law external to the Court was a suspension, but rather owned its ruling that certain immigrants have no privilege to assert habeas corpus as a self-imposed, judge made rule. This article was written to help immigration attorneys in perhaps our most shameless era access habeas corpus for their clients. Below are six approaches inspired by Boumediene v. Bush, according to which Thuraissigiam may be objectively distinguished. This article also examines common misconceptions about how Immigration Court should be addressed in a habeas proceeding by petitioners and a description of leading habeas law in support of immigration habeas petitions.

In a society characterized by a multitude of heterogeneous agents and a large number of possibly immaterial goods, each one having distinct social and personal values, we study the impact of these relative values on intergenerational capital accumulation, as a function of economic and social parameters such as capital mobility, productivity and personal and social values discrepancies. Each agent is modelled by a one-period production function and a two-period intertemporal utility. Agents live, produce and consume over one period, but optimize over two periods, so providing a remaining stock of goods for the next generation. This creates a dynamics in capital accumulation depending on social and individual values. A threshold appears in capital stock accumulation that depends on personal and social values’ volatilities, and below which the initial stock will be depleted. Whereas volatility in social values increases the threshold, impairing capital accumulation, adverse shocks in goods’ values may reverse the dynamics of the accumulation process. Finally, capital mobility specifically favors forerunners, but capital accumulation in one or several sectors may shift social values in their direction, at the expense of other sectors.

An article is an attempt to study «special relationships» between the United States and Great Britain. The author mentioned that the presidential elections in the USA and the fact that Donald Trump became a new president reflected on the relationships between the United States and Great Britain. The attention is given to the role of personality in states’ relationships. The article illustrates that Donald Trump`s populism in his speeches played a negative role for making stable relationships with the UK. More specifically, Donald Trump's criticism of London's mayor Sadiq Khan, Scotland Yard evocated a negative social reaction in Great Britain. As shown in the article, the citizens of the United Kingdom were shocked by Donald Trump`s islamophobia and his Facebook post of the far-right organization «Britain first». Indeed, it was the reason for massive protests during Donald Trump's official visit to the United Kingdom in 2018. The reference should be made to the fact that in 2016 the UK citizens decided to leave European Union. Despite the fact that Donald Trump approved this decision he criticized British prime-minister Theresa May for soft Brexit. As shown in the article contrary to the strong criticism of the British government Donald Trump visited Great Britain three times during his presidential term. These official trips were directed on normalization of Anglo-American relationships. Queen Elizabeth twice met Donald Trump and they both mentioned that special relationships are important for their countries. Research has shown that during Boris Johnson’s premiership US-UK relations became stronger. This factor is due to close Trump`s and Johnson's political views. The article illustrates that the United States and Great Britain still have special relationships. Countries have strong intelligence, military and nuclear cooperation. Both the US and the UK are still key economical partners and they are interested in safety relationships.

We analyze Donald J. Trump’s Twitter activity over the last months of the 2016 presidential campaign, his period as President Elect, and his Presidential term until Fall 2019, shortly before the outbreak of the pandemic. Trump weaponized social networks as a communication tool to build influence on the financial market and the public opinion. We relate Trump’s communication on Twitter to the dynamics of the NASDAQ100 trend over the whole period of study as well as two subperiods, pre-presidential versus presidential. We find that Trump’s hyperactivity on Twitter is followed by a negative market trend, and that tweets covering politically, and economically sensitive topics seem to negatively impact the market, except for real economy-related tweets. Some topics positively received by the market in the pre-presidential phase (e.g., China) become anticipators of negative trading days during the presidential one. We also consider the emotional tone of Trump’s tweets and find an unexpected reversal of the communicative valence of the tweets as to their expected impact on the stock market. Positive sentiment tweets seem to be followed by negative market performance and, maybe more surprisingly, vice versa. It seems that, during the period of observation, the market has learnt to interpret the emotional tone of Trump’s tweets as instrumental to Trump’s political strategy. In particular, the market seems to have realized that negative sentiment in Trump’s communication was entirely functional to political consensus building and not meant to convey market-relevant information. This is at odds with the idea that presidential communication should reflect the public interest, and especially so when it has major implications for the economy. Trump’s use of social media during both his presidential campaign and term questions the principle that institutional responsibility in the digital realm implies treating the infosphere as a commons. We discuss the implications for the functioning of the stock market and the emerging public interest ethical issues related to the breakdown of such principle.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a two‐stage international market selection and segmentation model addressed to help decision makers such as foreign institutions and market‐seeking multinational enterprises (MNEs) identify and select the most suitable European countries and groups of consumers.Design/methodology/approachThe first stage is conceived as a macro‐segmentation screening process based on market attractiveness. The second is a micro‐segmentation process addressed to identify which groups of people are most similar across Europe in terms of social and personal values. The authors' model is rooted in previous assumptions and findings from international market selection (IMS) and Inglehart's theory of material and post‐material values.FindingsThe model is applied to the current 27 European Union (EU) member states and is validated through the groups of countries empirically obtained. The model allows us to cluster the European countries by market attractiveness, group the European consumers by personal and social values and describe the value orientation of the resulting clusters.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors used cross‐sectional data to validate their model. Among the implications, they encourage international marketing and business scholars to make use of Inglehart's framework.Practical implicationsInstitutional decision makers and market‐seeking MNEs can follow or adapt the prescribed model in order to identify the most promising and similar European countries and groups of consumers. Public policy makers can gain an in‐depth understanding of specific personal and social values allowing them to shape public policy agendas.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the existing literature on IMS and segmentation in three ways: it proposes an original and parsimonious two‐stage IMS and segmentation integrative model for both country‐level and consumer‐related analyses (suitable to handle and reduce the European diversity that decision makers have to face when dealing with the general public or consumer products); it applies theoretically grounded general segmentation bases and an alternative established framework of consumer values (Inglehart's value system), and it adopts an updated and pan‐European perspective over the enlarged EU.

This chapter discusses the possibility of incorporating the framework of mathematical, social, and personal values into a number activity, following the approach shown in Shimada and Baba (Transformation of students’ values in the process of solving socially open-ended problems. In: Beswick K, Muir T, Wells J (eds) Proceedings of 39th psychology of mathematics education conference, vol 4. PME, Hobart, Australia, pp. 161–168, 2015). The qualitative analysis showed that kindergarten children regarded equality and fairness as very important among their personal and social values when distributing sweet potatoes to two different kinds of animals in an imaginary restaurant. Further, these social and personal values became a driving force toward mathematical values: children verbally expressed their logical opinions related to different quantities (the size of animals’ mouths), an ability closely linked with the beginning of rationality in mathematical values. Therefore, social and personal values can serve as a catalyst for kindergarteners to organically develop mathematical values.

ABSTRACTWe build from and advance value congruence theory and research by introducing new insights related to how value congruence may have different consequences when considered in light of job demands. Specifically, we apply both the theory of basic values and job demands‐resources theory to understand when and why objective value priority congruence with other organizational members results in positive or negative outcomes for both individuals and groups. Using data from a large quick service organization, we examine how employee‐supervisor and employee‐group value priority congruence and incongruence, on social or personal values, relate to both affective and behavioral individual‐level outcomes (employee engagement and turnover), and group‐level outcomes (collective engagement, customer satisfaction, sales, and group turnover). The results suggest that value priority congruence is associated with less employee engagement and higher turnover when the shared values represent personal (rather than social) value priorities because personal values are misaligned with the demands of the job. In some instances incongruence results in more positive outcomes than congruence on personal values. This pattern of results is consistent across both employee‐supervisor and employee‐group foci. Further, groups in which members predominantly prioritize personal values have lower collective engagement; resulting in significantly lower customer satisfaction and lower sales compared to groups with a majority of members who prioritize values aligned with job demands (social values). Altogether, this research helps explain when value congruence will be positive, and why value incongruence can be more beneficial than value congruence in some instances.

This article explored the role of personality disposition and value preference as predictors of social well-being in the context of ecological setting. Ecological contexts like rural and urban are critical, particularly in a developing country like India, because they represent significant disparities and variations in the lived experiences of the people. The participants ( n = 360) from the age range of 15–65 years (M = 33.50, SD = 11.99) were drawn from two ecological settings, that is, rural (Gorakhpur Region, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) and urban (National Capital Region of Delhi, India) and from both the genders. They completed the measures of social well-being, value preference and personality dispositions. The results showed that the different facets of social well-being were differentially related to the aspects of personality and value preference. Ecological setting had significant influence on the measures of personality disposition, value preference and social well-being. Regression analysis showed that except neuroticism, all other factors of personality had consistent positive contribution as the predictors of social well-being. It was also observed that social value and growth factors of value preference had significant contribution, whereas personal value and protection—factors of value preference—had negative contribution as the predictors of social well-being.

Este estudio se centró en los valores de socialización de los padres, es decir los valores que los padres quieren que sus hijos adopten, y sus fuentes. En una muestra de 325 familias italianas con un hijo adolescente (14-18 años), se compararon los valores de socialización entre los padres y las madres, y se evaluaron los valores personales de los padres y el clima de valores familiares como antecedentes de los valores que los padres quisieran que sus hijos adquirieran. Para cada familia se tuvieron en cuenta a ambos padres y al adolescente, y se les pidió que completaran individualmente el Portrait Values Questionnaire. Los resultados de la Anova han revelado una diferencia significativa entre los valores de socialización de los padres y los de las madres: los padres consideran más importantes que las madres los valores de apertura al cambio y los del autocrecimiento en la educación de sus hijos. Utilizando un análisis multinivel, al incluirse tanto padres como madres dentro del contexto familiar, hemos encontrado relaciones significativas entre todos los valores personales de los padres y sus valores de socialización, por un lado, y entre el clima de valores familiares y algunos de los valores de socialización de los padres, por el otro. Contrariamente, la interacción entre los valores personales de los padres y el clima de valores familiares no contribuye en predecir los valores que los padres quieren que sus hijos adopten. Se discuten las implicaciones de esta investigación y sus posibles desarrollos