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Political Cartoonist

Patrick Oliphant is one of the world's most prominent political cartoonists today. He was born in Australia and, as a young boy he began his journalistic career as a copyboy for his hometown newspaper. At the age of 20, he was promoted to the position of cartoonist. In 1964, Mr. Oliphant came to the United States to work as the political cartoonist for The Denver Post. One year later, his work was syndicated nationally by the Los Angeles Times.

In 1975, Mr. Oliphant joined the Washington Star and moved to Universal Press Syndicate in 1980. When the Washington Star folded in 1981, Mr. Oliphant decided to work as an independent cartoonist without a home newspaper and he is the only cartoonist who continues to do so successfully. His work is published in countless newspapers and magazines worldwide. Specially commissioned works appear in The New Yorker magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Pat Oliphant has won numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, the Thomas Nast Prize of Germany and the Premio Satira Politica of Italy, both in 1992. Dartmouth College honored him in 1981 with a Doctor of Humane Letters degree and the National Cartoonist Society named him "Cartoonist of the Year" in 1972.

Mr. Oliphant's achievements as a cartoonist, painter and sculptor have been celebrated in major exhibitions presented at the Smithsonian Institution, several presidential libraries and most recently, at an installation in the Library of Congress, the first exhibition presented in the newly restored Great Hall.

Andrea Guttin, Esq. is an attorney currently residing in Austin, Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and holds a J.D. and an M.A in Latin American Studies. She would like to thank Diego Garcia‐Olano for creating the database and inputting arrestee data, without which any analysis would have been impossible.

• The Criminal Alien Program: Immigration Enforcement in Travis County, Texas (IPC Special Report, February 2010)

Margaret D. Stock is an attorney in Anchorage, Alaska; a Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police Corps, U.S. Army Reserve; and an Associate Professor (Drilling Individual Mobilization Augmentee) in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.  She is a recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Genius Grant. The opinions expressed in this report are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the U.S. Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or any other government agency.

• Essential to the Fight:  Immigrants in the Military Five Years After 9/11 (IPC Special Report, November 2006)
• Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military Eight Years After 9/11 (IPC Special Report, November 2009)
• Made in America: Myths and Facts about Birthright Citizenship (IPC Perspectives, September 2009)

The current immigration removal system—from arrest to hearing to deportation and beyond—does not reflect American values of due process and fundamental fairness.  In fact, the immigration removal system lacks nearly all of the due process protections that come into play in the U.S. criminal justice system. 

With this in mind, we've created this resource page to draw attention to issues surrounding due process in the immigration system, including reports on the problems and flaws of the current system, as well as possible fixes.

Special Reports:

• Two Systems of Justice:  How the Immigration System Falls Short of American Ideals of Justice (March 2013)
• Two Systems of Justice:  Policy Recommendations (March 2013)
• Teleconference on Ensuring Fairness and Due Process in American Immigration Justice System (June 2013)

Fact Sheets:

• Providing Noncitizens With Their Day in Court (May 2013)

Related Blogs:

• Read all of our Due Process Blogs