| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Responding to the "Litigation Explosion": the Plain Meaning of Executive Branch Primacy over Immigration |
71 North Carolina Law Review 413 (January, 1993) |
Politics and personal beliefs have become increasingly intertwined since the founding of the United States. Few issues have divided Americans more than immigration laws and policies. This Note advances the argument that when a noncitizen's application for a National Interest Waiver is denied, there must be some recourse. The current problem is... |
2021 |
| Gabriel J. Chin |
Segregation's Last Stronghold: Race Discrimination and the Constitutional Law of Immigration |
46 UCLA Law Review 1 (October, 1998) |
Rates of domestic violence are astonishingly high in Indian Country. More than half of Indian women have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. They are twice as likely to experience rape as white women and to experience more violent rape when it occurs. Their plight is also deeply intertwined with race: 90% of women reported that the... |
2021 |
| Harvey Gee |
Semblances of Sovereignty: the Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 223. |
16 Saint Thomas Law Review 147 (Fall 2003) |
Reading Deported Americans is like watching a horror movie; it is all too easy to anticipate the terror coming. But it is no fantasy; this nightmare is real life. The book is the story of good people, many with close connections to the United States, deported without mercy or individual consideration. Sometimes, although not always, they are... |
2021 |
| Jean Shin |
The Asian American Closet |
11 Asian Law Journal 1 (May, 2004) |
The disparate treatment of capital and labor reflects one of globalization's central asymmetries: the law often allows financial capital, but not people, to move freely across borders. Yet scholars have largely neglected the intersection of these two regimes, the legal restrictions on migrants' capital, particularly when the migrants themselves are... |
2021 |
| Daina C. Chiu |
The Cultural Defense: Beyond Exclusion, Assimilation, and Guilty Liberalism |
82 California Law Review 1053 (July 1, 1994) |
The last few years saw deeply troubling developments in U.S. immigration law and enforcement. The Obama administration annually removed hundreds of thousands of noncitizens from the United States, which earned the President the unflattering nickname of Deporter in Chief. After making immigration enforcement the cornerstone of his 2016... |
2021 |
| Philip Brashier |
The United States Struggles with past Judicial Interpretations in Defining the Modern Law of Immigration |
37 South Texas Law Review 1357 (October, 1996) |
This Essay puts forward a two-element argument that noncitizen defendants can use to establish that they have been interrogated for Miranda purposes when they have been questioned about their immigration status by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. I examine the briefing and decision in one defendant's case to illustrate why this... |
2021 |
| Rita Cinquemani |
THE VOLUNTARY WORK PROGRAM: A DISCUSSION ON MINIMUM WAGE FOR CIVIL IMMIGRATION DETAINEES |
38 Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 397 (Spring, 2021) |
This Essay traces the roots of the criminal legal and immigration systems and explains my personal journey through these systems, as well as what I have observed about how they operate today. These systems are rooted in British and colonial laws, as well as Puritanism. The remnants of these practices still affect our systems today and show us that... |
2021 |
| Jill E. Family |
Threats to the Future of the Immigration Class Action |
27 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 71 (2008) |
This paper analyzes the implementation of exclusionary citizenship laws against Chinese and Japanese immigrants from 1880 to 1940. It further analyzes the application of these exclusionary mechanisms to the Asian immigrant populations in Monterey County, California. It identifies how the agricultural industry in Monterey County by-passed these... |
2021 |
| Emily Ryo |
Through the Back Door: Applying Theories of Legal Compliance to Illegal Immigration During the Chinese Exclusion Era |
31 Law and Social Inquiry 109 (Winter, 2006) |
This paper analyzes the implementation of exclusionary citizenship laws against Chinese and Japanese immigrants from 1880 to 1940. It further analyzes the application of these exclusionary mechanisms to the Asian immigrant populations in Monterey County, California. It identifies how the agricultural industry in Monterey County by-passed these... |
2021 |
| Jared A. Goldstein |
Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump |
20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 489 (February, 2018) |
Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. --Matthew 25:45 America is fortunate to have a long running and relatively stable democratic government, due in large part to the robustness of many of its democratic institutions. Analogically, one can describe democratic institutions as some of the... |
2021 |