| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Rachel E. Rosenbloom |
The Citizenship Line: Rethinking Immigration Exceptionalism |
54 Boston College Law Review 1965 (November, 2013) |
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, both passed in 1996, substantially altered U.S. immigration law and policy. In December 1999, the Criminal Justice Institute of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic, and the Boston College Law... |
2000 |
| Allegra M. McLeod |
The U.s. Criminal-immigration Convergence and its Possible Undoing |
49 American Criminal Law Review 105 (Winter, 2012) |
This essay is an effort to predict what the Supreme Court will do with constitutional immigration law, focusing in particular on substantive categories of aliens who are not allowed to enter or remain in the United States. The Court's record in this context consists of a string of cases, over a century long, upholding with depressing regularity... |
2000 |
| L. Darnell Weeden |
We the People Should Extend Constitutional Protections to Undocumented Resident Immigrants Killed Unreasonably by the Police |
44 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 187 (Spring, 2020) |
We live in a nation with two dominant characteristics. One, we are a nation of immigrants. Two, we are a nation based on rights. So why are immigrants the last group to gain rights? Why are the archaic laws of our dark past being shielded from the light of progress that has touched all other areas of jurisprudence, but lags disgracefully behind in... |
2000 |
| Ernesto Hernández-López |
Global Migrations and Imagined Citizenship: Examples from Slavery, Chinese Exclusion, and When Questioning Birthright Citizenship |
14 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 255 (Spring 2008) |
I. Introduction. 760 II. Critical Race Theory. 764 III. History of Discrimination Against Asian Americans: Nativism and the Racialization of Asian Americans As Foreign. 769 IV. Asian-American Contributions to the Critical Race Movement. 773 A. Constructing Asian-American Identities During the Exclusion Era. 776 B. Contemporary Discrimination... |
1999 |
| Gabriel J. Chin , Douglas M. Spencer |
Did Multicultural America Result from a Mistake? The 1965 Immigration Act and Evidence from Roll Call Votes |
2015 University of Illinois Law Review 1239 (2015) |
Gregorio Diaz, an American citizen of Mexican descent, is an Illinois resident. On February 18, 1998, Mr. Diaz arrived at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago from a trip abroad. When passing through customs, he was detained by an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) inspection officer , at which time he submitted documentation of his... |
1999 |
| Matthew J. Lindsay |
Immigration as Invasion: Sovereignty, Security, and the Origins of the Federal Immigration Power |
45 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (Winter 2010) |
In 1996 Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). This law cemented the recent trend of cracking down on illegal immigration by increasing the number of border patrols, limiting judicial review, and introducing new penalties for a variety of immigration control violations. This anti-immigrant... |
1999 |
| Mohar Ray |
Undocumented Asian American Workers and State Wage Laws in the Aftermath of Hoffman Plastic Compounds |
13 Asian American Law Journal 91 (November, 2006) |
To hear some immigration advocates tell it, Americans in the 1990s have slammed the golden door shut in a fit of xenophobic hysteria . . . . Fortunately, this is a false picture . . . . I recently received a plea for help from a tearful U.S. citizen who is the mother of a twenty-five-year-old lawful permanent resident from Panama. She told me that... |
1999 |
| Devon W. Carbado |
Yellow by Law |
97 California Law Review 633 (June, 2009) |
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs any more than they can acquire our complexion? -Benjamin Franklin In the United States today, approximately half of the states have laws that restrict... |
1999 |
| Andrew T. Hayashi , Richard M. Hynes |
PROTECTIONIST PROPERTY TAXES |
106 Iowa Law Review 1091 (March, 2021) |
L1-2Introduction 1112 I. The History of Racial Exclusion in the U.S. Immigration Laws. 1119 A. From Chinese Exclusion to General Asian Subordination. 1120 1. Chinese Exclusion and Reconstruction. 1122 2. Japanese Internment and Brown v. Board of Education. 1124 B. The National Origins Quota System. 1127 C. Modern Racial Exclusion. 1131 1. The War... |
1998 |
| Amanda Frost |
"BY ACCIDENT OF BIRTH": THE BATTLE OVER BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AFTER UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK |
32 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 38 (Summer, 2021) |
[Congress] cast a big net, and they're catching some dolphins in itImmigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Russ Bergeron, commenting on the harshness of immigration law's new aggravated felon provisions. Congressional legislation in 1996 fundamentally altered the landscape of United States immigration law. On April 24, 1996, Congress... |
1998 |