In this respect, the Advi- sory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, issued on 9 July 2004, rejected Israel’s security argument, since the route of the wall and its associated regime gravely infringe on a number of rights of Palestinians residing in the territory occupied by Israel, and the infringements resulting from that route cannot be justified by military needs or by the requiremen. [...] At the outset, it sheds a light on the regulation of immigration to the United States that dates to the end of the eighteenth century, specifically to 1798, the year in which three important Acts concerning the status of aliens in the United States (the Naturalization Acts, the Alien Friends Act, and the Alien Enemies Act) were adopted. [...] Finally, the last chapter highlights the Western Sahara Wall, which was built in the 1980s in a specific international and regional context marked by the heated competition between the two superpowers during the Cold War over the control of some geostrategic areas, including the Maghreb. [...] They include: the separa- tion of the Western Sahara region from Morocco; the success of the Moroc- can Autonomy Initiative; or the continuation of the existing status quo. [...] In other words, the future of the Sahara Wall, also known as a sand wall, is closely related to the issue of the Sahara itself, since the latter is just an aspect of a complex and latent conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
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