| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Shani M. King |
Child Migrants and America's Evolving Immigration Mission |
32 Harvard Human Rights Journal 59 (Spring, 2019) |
This Article explores the many challenges--legal and otherwise--that child migrants face as they attempt to navigate the complex web of courts, laws, and shifting political landscapes to become naturalized United States citizens, while putting these challenges in the context of an immigration system that has long been shaped by politics of... |
2019 |
| Sarah L. Hamilton-Jiang |
Children of a Lesser God: Reconceptualizing Race in Immigration Law |
15 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 38 (Fall, 2019) |
The increased public exposure to the experiences of Latinx unaccompanied children seeking entry at the United States southern border has revealed the lived reality of the nation's pernicious immigration laws. The harrowing experiences of unaccompanied children are amplified by their interaction with a legal system plagued by a legacy of systemic... |
2019 |
| Li Chen |
Chinese Crusaders' Lawfare Against Chinese Exclusion Laws |
36 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 139 (Spring, 2019) |
This article focuses on two of the earliest Chinese law students in the United States who deployed their legal knowledge and advocacy skills to fight against the Chinese Exclusion Act and its related laws in the early 1900s. Ho Yow, the fourth Chinese national to ever attend law school in the United States, performed this courageous task as Chinese... |
2019 |
| Aaron Korthuis |
Detention and Deterrence: Insights from the Early Years of Immigration Detention at the Border |
129 Yale Law Journal Forum 238 (November 25, 2019) |
Throughout the past several years, in the Trump and Obama Administrations alike, federal immigration authorities have advanced the use of detention as a deterrent to dissuade immigrants from seeking refuge in the United States. That detention often lasts for months, and even years, causing some immigrants to give up their cases, while... |
2019 |
| Christopher Mendez |
Dignity Takings in Leviathanic Immigration Proceedings |
21 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 403 (2019) |
Current immigration law in the United States is rife with racially motivated biases necessitating immediate correction. Among the many problems with current law, constitutional rights are withheld from a large populace. This article reflects upon the history of immigration law in the United States, noting key decisions which have formed the status... |
2019 |
| Fatma E. Marouf |
Executive Overreaching in Immigration Adjudication |
93 Tulane Law Review 707 (April, 2019) |
While Presidents have broad powers over immigration, they have traditionally shown restraint when it comes to influencing the adjudication of individual cases. The Trump Administration, however, has pushed past such conventional constraints. This Article examines executive overreaching in immigration adjudication by analyzing three types of... |
2019 |
| Amy Seilliere |
How Voluntary Abandonment of Permanent Resident Status and Coercion Don't Mix |
51 University of the Pacific Law Review 155 (2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 156 II. Background Of Immigration Issues and Form I-407. 158 A. Presumption of Abandonment of Permanent Resident Status Upon Leaving United States for a Long Period of Time. 159 B. Purpose and Advantages of Form I-407. 160 C. Internal Agency Documents and Manuals Regarding Form I-407. 161 III. How Do We Know... |
2019 |
| Gillian R. Chadwick |
Legitimating the Transnational Family |
42 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 257 (Summer, 2019) |
Legitimation represents a widening chasm at the intersection of immigration and family law. Agencies' and courts' persistent misguided reliance on biology as a paramount dispositive factor in determining who qualifies as a family for the purposes of immigration and nationality is increasingly at odds with family law's growing aspiration of a... |
2019 |
| Shalini Bhargava Ray |
Plenary Power and Animus in Immigration Law |
80 Ohio State Law Journal 13 (2019) |
After a campaign denigrating Muslims as sick people, blaming the children of Muslim Americans for terrorism, and promising to shut down Muslim immigration, and mere days after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump banned the nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entry into the United States. In the litigation that followed,... |
2019 |
| Angela M. Banks |
Precarious Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Naturalization 1918 to 1925 |
37 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 149 (Winter, 2019) |
During the height of the exclusion era, when Asian immigrants were prohibited from naturalizing and becoming United States citizens, state and federal court judges around the country naturalized at least 500 Asian immigrant servicepersons and veterans. Between 1918 and 1925, Federal Bureau of Naturalization officials and state and federal court... |
2019 |