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The Trump Administration: Immigration, Racism, and COVID-19

The Trump Administration: Immigration, Racism, and COVID-19

Michele Goodwin & Erwin Chemerinsky

Volume 169 Issue 2 2021
Article

Two of the most important issues defining the Trump Administration were the President’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Administration’s dealing with immigration issues. These have been regarded, in the popular press and in the scholarly literature, as unrelated. But there is a key common feature in the Trump Administration’s response: racism and xenophobia has shaped both the handling of the public health crisis and immigration issues. Understanding the underlying basis for the Trump Administration’s reaction to both issues helps to clarify the fallacies, indeed the tragedies in its actions, and the legal errors that have been made.

Michele Goodwin is Chancellor’s Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, at the University of California, Irvine. Thank you to Garrett Stallins and Dylan Gera, my research assistants, and the staff at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Erwin Chemerinsky, Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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