| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Anthony J. DeMattee , Matthew J. Lindsay , Hallie Ludsin |
AN UNREASONABLE PRESUMPTION: THE NATIONAL SECURITY/FOREIGN AFFAIRS NEXUS IN IMMIGRATION LAW |
88 Brooklyn Law Review 747 (Spring, 2023) |
For well over a century, immigration governance has occupied a constitutionally unique niche within American public law, where it is subject to substantially weaker constitutional constraints than apply in virtually every other context. When the federal government banishes a noncitizen from the country or detains her for months or years at a time,... |
2024 |
| Jonathan C. Augustine |
AND WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?: A FAITH-BASED ARGUMENT FOR IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM IN WELCOMING UNDOCUMENTED REFUGEES |
66 Howard Law Journal 439 (Spring, 2023) |
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as a citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington, DC, revealed several things about the United States. In... |
2024 |
| Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina |
CITIZENISM: RACIALIZED DISCRIMINATION BY DESIGN |
104 Boston University Law Review 831 (April, 2024) |
This Article advances the conceptual framework of citizenism to describe how citizenship is mobilized and weaponized to sustain structural racism. Citizenism transcends formal citizenship status because the construction of whiteness underwrites it as the only presumptively legitimate racial category for citizenship. A focus on citizenism provides... |
2024 |
| Kristine Quint |
FAULT LINES OF IMMIGRATION FEDERALISM: UNITED STATES v. TEXAS AND THE REVERSE-COMMANDEERING OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT POWER |
27 Lewis & Clark Law Review 991 (2023) |
Federal supremacy over immigration enforcement is a primary tenet of U.S. immigration law. Despite this, states are now routinely, and often successfully, blocking executive immigration policy in federal court. One such case is United States v. Texas, in which the states argue that the Biden administration's enforcement priority guidelines inflict... |
2024 |
| Sandra L. Rierson |
FROM DRED SCOTT TO ANCHOR BABIES: WHITE SUPREMACY AND THE CONTEMPORARY ASSAULT ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP |
38 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2023) |
[W]e remain imprisoned by the past as long as we deny its influence in the present. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. Unrestricted... |
2024 |
| Andrew Tae-Hyun Kim |
IMMIGRANT TORTS |
57 U.C. Davis Law Review 1059 (December, 2023) |
In 2022, the Supreme Court effectively gutted a long-standing constitutional remedy for torts committed by federal officers. In the process, it seemingly immunized even the most serious abuses committed by Border Patrol agents. Such dramatic legal transformation has occurred despite--and perhaps because of--the soaring numbers of migrants at the... |
2024 |
| Lindsay Nash |
INVENTING DEPORTATION ARRESTS |
121 Michigan Law Review 1301 (June, 2023) |
At the dawn of the federal deportation system, the nation's top immigration official proclaimed the power to authorize deportation arrests an extraordinary one to vest in administrative officers. He reassured the nation that this immense power--then wielded by a cabinet secretary, the only executive officer empowered to authorize these... |
2024 |
| Jennifer M. Chacón |
LEGAL BORDERLANDS AND IMPERIAL LEGACIES: A RESPONSE TO MAGGIE BLACKHAWK'S THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICAN COLONIALISM |
137 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (November, 2023) |
What are the borderlands? In her brilliant and sweeping exploration of the constitution of American colonialism, Professor Maggie Blackhawk references the borderlands dozens of times. She ultimately looks to the borderlands for constitutional salvation, extracting six principles of borderlands constitutionalism that she urges us to reckon with... |
2024 |
| Ahilan T. Arulanantham |
REVERSING RACIST PRECEDENT |
112 Georgetown Law Journal 439 (March, 2024) |
The Supreme Court has long read the Constitution to prohibit state action motivated by racial animus. Courts have applied that prohibition to various forms of governmental decisionmaking, from the individual decisions of judicial officers to constitutional amendments enacted by states. Yet courts have not applied it to their own precedent. No... |
2024 |
| Rosa S. Felibert |
SHOPPING ON THIN ICE: VENUE LIMITS ON ICE DETENTION TRANSFERS TO PREVENT FORUM SHOPPING |
65 Boston College Law Review 1099 (March, 2024) |
Abstract: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency that manages the world's largest civil immigration detention system, transfers hundreds of detained noncitizens to different detention centers every day at its sole discretion and for any reason, typically without advising the noncitizen's counsel or family. This unchecked... |
2024 |