Through an analysis of a unique and understudied unit within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit (HRVWCU, or “the Unit”), this article addresses the following theoretical and policy question: once someone has been admitted to the United States and granted permanent residency, or even citizenship, how does the law facilitate the reversal of that decision based on acts committed long ago and far away? We argue that the HRVWCU has created a significant new way to govern immigration through crime—specifically international crime—while simultaneously trying to ensure justice for mass atrocities through immigration law. In offering an overview of the Unit's origins and approach in blending international criminal law, domestic criminal law, and immigration law, we show how this Unit reflects an expansion of crimmigration in the United States and abroad. In order to illustrate the dilemma of internationalized crimmigration, the article focuses on the Unit's cases related to war crimes in Liberia and Bosnia, which have two very different (at least from the perspective of international criminal law) types of alleged perpetrators: those who allegedly gave orders and those who allegedly followed orders.

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新法律制度的政治：通过国内移民法治理国际犯罪

通过对美国国土安全部 (DHS) 人权侵犯者和战争罪行处 (HRVWCU，或“该单位”) 内一个独特且未被充分研究的单位进行分析，本文解决了以下理论和政策问题：一旦有人已获准进入美国并获得永久居留权，甚至公民身份，法律如何促进撤销基于很久以前和遥远的行为的决定？我们认为 HRVWCU 创造了一种重要的新方法来管理通过犯罪——特别是国际犯罪——的移民，同时试图通过移民法确保大规模暴行的正义。在概述该股的起源和融合国际刑法、国内刑法和移民法的方法时，我们展示了这个单位如何反映美国和国外犯罪移民的扩张。为了说明国际化犯罪移民的困境，本文重点关注该股与利比里亚和波斯尼亚战争罪有关的案件，这两个案件有两种截然不同的（至少从国际刑法的角度来看）被指控的犯罪者：被指控的犯罪者下达命令的人和据称服从命令的人。