The debate over TikTok and related laws targeting Chinese nationals reveals a growing pattern: the U.S. is increasingly willing to sacrifice constitutional rights in the name of national security. But when that trade-off begins to affect people’s livelihoods, freedom of speech, or access to education and housing, we have to ask—who gets to define security, and at what cost?

Why should people in the legal profession care about this spike of Chinese migrants caused by economic, political, and diplomatic grievances