S. Deborah Kang

Associate Professor, Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia

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Media and Essays

Media

  • “Criminal Laws,” Democracy in Danger, May 11, 2022.
  • “TPS for Ukrainians is good. But our selective approach to refugees excludes many,” Washington Post, March 4, 2022.
  • “Surge in Migrants at the Southern Border,” “The Morning Show,” Wisconsin Public Radio, May 14, 2021.
  • “The Immigration Debate,” CBS11 (Dallas), April 4, 2021.
  • “Migrants Crossing Arizona/Mexico Border,” CBS11 (Dallas), April 2, 2021.
  • Comment on undocumented migration and unaccompanied minors, NBCLX, April 1, 2021.
  • “Big immigration changes planned in U.S.,” KRLD News (Dallas), January 22, 2021.
  • “‘Dreamer’ shares hopes, fears as Biden administration drafts legislation to protect DACA recipients,” WFAA ABC 8 (Dallas), January 22, 2021.
  • “The Trump administration has used the coronavirus threat to swiftly kick more than 200,000 immigrants out of the U.S.,” Dallas Morning News, October 17, 2020.
  • “CBP Drones Conducted Flyovers Near Homes of Indigenous Pipeline Activists, Flight Records Show,” Gizmodo, September 18, 2020.
  • “Immigration Historian Says Border Patrol’s Role In Protest Law Enforcement Is Troubling,” Texas Standard, June 12, 2020.
  • “ICE Raids Begin in Select U.S. Cities,” Wisconsin Public Radio, July 16, 2019.
  • “Border Apprehensions: Looking to the past to understand the current spike in illegal crossings,” San Diego Union Tribune, June 23, 2019.
  • “What’s Driving the Movement to Abolish ICE?” PBS Newshour (online), July 6, 2018.
  • “’Abolish ICE’ Movement is Growing. Is the Agency’s Disbanding Likely?” Politifact, July 3, 2018.
  • “What Do You Want to Know about ICE?” 1A: Speak Freely,  WAMU, National Public Radio, Washington, DC, July 3, 2018.
  • “Immigration Nation,” Code Switch: Race and Identity Remixed,National Public Radio, June 27, 2018.
  • “15 Years After Its Creation Critics Want to Abolish ICE,” Here and Now, WBUR, National Public Radio, Boston, June 25, 2018.
  • “California to Join Guard Border Mission, but with Conditions,” KPBS Midday Edition, KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, San Diego, California, April 12, 2018.
  • “Border Security,” KPBS Evening Edition, KPBS, San Diego Public Television, San Diego, California, April 11, 2018.
  • “Trump’s Mexico Border Wall,” Take Two,National Public Radio, Los Angeles/KPCC Affiliate, Pasadena, California, January 26, 2017.

Essays

  • “TPS for Ukrainians is good. But our selective approach to refugees excludes many,” Washington Post, March 4, 2022.
  • “Border Fiction Made Real: How Search and Seizure Laws Degrade on the 100-Mile Border Zone,” KCET Artbound, November 12, 2019.
  • “The History of Citizenship Day is a Reminder that That Being an American Has Always Been Complicated,” Time Magazine, September 17, 2019.
  • Carly Goodman, S. Deborah Kang, and Yael Schacher, “How advocates can defeat Trump’s latest assault on asylum seekers,” Washington Post, July 18, 2019.
  • “The US Begins Mass Deportation of Mexican Migrants,” “25 Moments in American History that Matter Right Now,” Time Magazine, June 28, 2018.

Recent Work

Amicus brief filed in US v. Carrillo-Lopez (9th Cir.), April 14, 2022
Washington Post op-ed on Ukrainian refugees, March 4, 2022
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