| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Donald S. Dobkin |
Race and the Shaping of U.s. Immigration Policy |
28 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 19 (2009) |
Legal academics who call for campaign finance reform--let us call them Reformers--have overlooked the significance of race, and as a result their critiques of constitutional jurisprudence and reform proposals remain woefully incomplete. Studies reveal that people of color comprise approx-imately thirty percent of the nation's population, but... |
2002 |
| Moushmi Patil |
REQUISITE REALIGNMENT: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, ASIAN AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK--WHITE BINARY |
170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1625 (June, 2022) |
One way to determine whether the national or the state governments should have the power over immigration, that is, the ability to regulate the flow of noncitizens into a polity, is to look at the text of the U.S. Constitution, which purports to allocate powers between these entities. Unfortunately, the word immigration appears nowhere in the... |
2002 |
| Sonia Chen |
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996: Another Congressional Hurdle for the Courts |
8 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 169 (Fall, 2000) |
The rise of administrative bodies, Justice Robert Jackson wrote, probably has been the most significant legal trend of the last century .. They have become a veritable fourth branch of the Government .. It is easy to see why Justice Jackson's view is widely shared. The great federal regulatory agencies exert significant influence over large... |
2002 |
| Paul Yin |
The Narratives of Chinese-american Litigation During the Chinese Exclusion Era |
19 Asian American Law Journal 145 (2012) |
The year 1943 was a bad one for many people around the world, Japanese Americans among them. In 1943, the Supreme Court began upholding portions of the military action regulating their presence on the West Coast that had begun the previous year. After being subjected to a race-based curfew in 1942, by 1943 the Japanese Americans of California,... |
2001 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
A Case Study of Color-blindness: the Racially Disparate Impacts of Arizona's S.b. 1070 and the Failure of Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
2 UC Irvine Law Review 313 (February, 2012) |
A number of federal and state policies have had significant impacts on low-income, pregnant immigrant women living in California. This paper focuses on the issue of Public Charge, in conjunction with the 1996 Welfare Reform and the 1996 Immigration Act. I argue that the social contexts that helped garner support for such anti-immigrant... |
2001 |
| Liliana M. Garcés |
Evolving Notions of Membership: the Significance of Communal Ties in Alienage Jurisprudence |
71 Southern California Law Review 1037 (July, 1998) |
I. Introduction. 3 A. Long Journey From the South to El Norte Seeded with Hope and Dangers. 5 1. History, Geography, and Economics: The Three Fundamental Reasons for Mexican Migration. 5 2. Mexico: The Leading Source Country of Undocumented Immigration to the United States. 7 3. The Remote Origins and Periodic Causes of Mexican Migrations to El... |
2001 |
| Mangesh Duggal |
Justice Delayed but Not Denied: Hong Yen Chang's Quest |
22 Asian American Law Journal 119 (2015) |
In this Article, Professor Michael Wishnie addresses the current pressing problem of denial of benefits to legal immigrants under the 1996 Welfare Reform Act in the context of a deeper inquiry into the very heart of immigration law: From where does the federal government derive the power to regulate its borders? Can Congress devolve this power to... |
2001 |
| Emily Ryo |
Legal Attitudes of Immigrant Detainees |
51 Law and Society Review 99 (March, 2017) |
In this Note, Anita Sinha examines the treatment of asylum claims involving gender-related persecution. Analyzing the three most recent decisions published by the Board of Immigration Appeals, Sinha illustrates that these cases have turned on whether the gender-related violence can be linked to practices attributable to non-Western, foreign... |
2001 |
| Paul L. Frantz |
Undocumented Workers: State Issuance of Driver Licenses Would Create a Constitutional Conundrum |
18 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 505 (Spring, 2004) |
Traditionally, scholars who study the history of American immigration policy adhere to one of two paths. The first path distinguishes between restrictionist or racist and liberal periods or ideologies. The other path, a more institutional approach, differentiates between a period without control, beginning with the foundation of the republic... |
2001 |
| Gerald L. Neuman |
Aliens as Outlaws: Government Services, Proposition 187, and the Structure of Equal Protection Doctrine |
42 UCLA Law Review 1425 (August 1, 1995) |
Arsonists of the Order of Caucasians, a white supremacist group that blamed Chinese immigrants for all the economic sufferings of white workers, tried to burn down the Chinatown in Chico and murdered four Chinese men by tying them up, dousing them with kerosene, and setting them on fire. A mob of white miners massacred twenty-eight Chinese... |
2000 |