| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Christopher N. Lasch |
A Common-law Privilege to Protect State and Local Courts During the Crimmigration Crisis |
127 Yale Law Journal Forum 410 (October 24, 2017) |
abstract. Under the Trump presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been making immigration arrests in state and local courthouses. This practice has sparked controversy. Officials around the country, including the highest judges of five states, have asked ICE to stop the arrests. ICE's refusal to do so raises the... |
2017 |
| Esther Yoona Cho |
A Double Bind-"Model Minority" and "Illegal Alien" |
24 Asian American Law Journal 123 (2017) |
Introduction. 124 I. The Social Location of Asian Immigrants in the United States. 124 II. Complex and Nuanced Realities of the Asian Race/Illegality Intersection. 127 A. Invisibility of Undocumented Asian Immigrants: That We Exist.. 127 B. Perceived Advantages of Undocumented Asian Immigrants: They Do Have an Advantage.. 128 C. The Model... |
2017 |
| Huyen Pham |
A Framework for Understanding Subfederal Enforcement of Immigration Laws |
13 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 508 (Fall, 2017) |
When thirty-two-year-old Kate Steinle was randomly shot during broad daylight on San Francisco's Pier 14, the initial public reaction was one of shock. When the shooter was determined to be an unauthorized immigrant who had been deported five times, and had been recently released by the San Francisco Sheriff's Department despite an extensive... |
2017 |
| César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández |
Abolishing Immigration Prisons |
97 Boston University Law Review 245 (January, 2017) |
Introduction. 246 I. Immigration Imprisonment Today. 251 A. Defining Immigration Imprisonment. 252 B. Pathways into Immigration Imprisonment. 253 C. Lasting Power of Immigration Imprisonment. 257 II. Abolitionist Legacies. 260 A. Defining Abolition. 262 B. Abolition Past and Present. 265 III. Immigration Imprisonment's Moral Foundation. 274 A.... |
2017 |
| Bolatito Kolawole |
African Immigrants, Intersectionality, and the Increasing Need for Visibility in the Current Immigration Debate |
7 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 373 (2017) |
Africans are one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States, yet their presence receives very little attention in public discourse about immigration. In an era where America's immigration policies have grown increasingly insular, African immigrants are particularly at risk of having measures that historically facilitated their... |
2017 |
| Margaret Hu |
Algorithmic Jim Crow |
86 Fordham Law Review 633 (November, 2017) |
This Article contends that current immigration- and security-related vetting protocols risk promulgating an algorithmically driven form of Jim Crow. Under the separate but equal discrimination of a historic Jim Crow regime, state laws required mandatory separation and discrimination on the front end, while purportedly establishing equality on the... |
2017 |
| M. Akram Faizer |
America First: Improving a Recalcitrant Immigration and Refugee Policy |
84 Tennessee Law Review 933 (Summer, 2017) |
Introduction. 934 I. An Argument for Changing the Current Recalcitrant Immigration Policy to Provide Temporary Residency for International Migrants. 936 II. The Migration Crisis and its Causes. 938 III. Rich World Recalcitrance and its Causes. 940 A. U.S. Migration. 941 B. U.K. Migration. 949 C. French Migration. 950 D. Canadian Migration. 951 IV.... |
2017 |
| Anita Sinha |
Arbitrary Detention? The Immigration Detention Bed Quota |
12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 77 (Spring, 2017) |
When President Obama took office in 2009, Congress through appropriations linked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) funding to maintaining 33,400 immigration detention beds a day. This provision, what this Article refers to as the bed quota, remains in effect, except now the mandate is 34,000 beds a day. Since 2009, DHS detentions... |
2017 |
| Paige Newman |
Arizona's Anti-immigration Law and the Pervasiveness of Racial Profiling |
31 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 611 (Spring, 2017) |
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070) was passed in 2010 as an anti-illegal immigration measure and subsequently became known as one of the broadest and strictest laws of its kind at the time it took effect. The law, entitled Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, requires police to determine the immigrant status of someone... |
2017 |
| Harvey Gee |
Asian Americans and the Law: Sharing a Progressive Civil Rights Agenda During Uncertain Times |
10 DePaul Journal for Social Justice Just. 1 (Summer, 2017) |
The November election of Donald J. Trump as the 45 U.S. President heightened ever-growing concerns about a retrenchment of civil rights for Americans, limiting voting rights, invoking tougher criminal penalties, keeping Guantanamo Bay prison open and returning to aggressive interrogation techniques, mass deportations and stricter immigration laws.... |
2017 |
| Chris F. Wright , Stephen Clibborn |
Back Door, Side Door, or Front Door? An Emerging De-facto Low-skilled Immigration Policy in Australia |
39 Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 165 (Fall, 2017) |
Official routes of immigration can be conceptualized as small doors that permit entry selectively to certain categories of migrants deemed desirable. These small doors are situated within a much bigger protective wall of immigration control erected to deny entry to many other would-be migrants who fall outside of the selection criteria.... |
2017 |
| Frank Sharry |
Backlash, Big Stakes, and Bad Laws: How the Right Went for Broke and the Left Fought Back in the Fight over the 1996 Immigration Laws |
9 Drexel Law Review 269 (Spring, 2017) |
This Article reflects upon the political contestation that led to the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, contextualizing the anti-immigration backlash and debates. Further, this Article discusses some of the ways in which immigration advocates sought to... |
2017 |
| Muneer I. Ahmad |
Beyond Earned Citizenship |
52 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 257 (Summer, 2017) |
For more than a decade, a single rubric for legalization of the 11 million undocumented people in the United States has dominated every major proposal for comprehensive immigration reform, and continues to do so today: earned citizenship. Introduced as a rhetorical move intended to distinguish such proposals from amnesty, the earned citizenship... |
2017 |
| Ediberto Román , Ernesto Sagás |
Birthright Citizenship under Attack: How Dominican Nationality Laws May Be the Future of U.s. Exclusion |
66 American University Law Review 1383 (August, 2017) |
Attacks on birthright citizenship periodically emerge in the United States, particularly during presidential election cycles. Indeed, blaming immigrants for the country's woes is a common strategy for conservative politicians, and the campaign leading up to the 2016 presidential election was not an exception. Several of the Republican presidential... |
2017 |
| Kristin A. Collins |
Bureaucracy as the Border: Administrative Law and the Citizen Family |
66 Duke Law Journal 1727 (May, 2017) |
This contribution to the symposium on administrative law and practices of inclusion and exclusion examines the complex role of administrators in the development of family-based citizenship and immigration laws. Official decisions regarding the entry of noncitizens into the United States are often characterized as occurring outside of the normal... |
2017 |
| Rebecca Sharpless |
Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Detention of Immigrant Families |
47 New Mexico Law Review 19 (Winter, 2017) |
July 10, 2014: [O]ur message to [people who unlawfully cross the Mexican border with their children] is simple: We will send you back. We are building additional space to detain [families] and hold them until their expedited removal orders are effectuated. Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security June 24, 2015: I have... |
2017 |
| Annie Lai , Christopher N. Lasch |
Crimmigration Resistance and the Case of Sanctuary City Defunding |
57 Santa Clara Law Review 539 (2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 540 I. Threats to Defund Sanctuary Cities and Their Origins. 544 A. Four Decades (and Four Waves) of Sanctuary. 546 B. Sanctuary Defunding Becomes a Mainstay of the Trump Campaign. 548 C. Failed Legislative Attempts at Sanctuary Defunding. 550 D. Sanctuary Defunding Pursued as Part of the Federal Budgeting... |
2017 |
| Yolanda Vázquez |
Crimmigration: the Missing Piece of Criminal Justice Reform |
51 University of Richmond Law Review 1093 (May, 2017) |
Our nation is being robbed of men and women who could be workers and taxpayers, could be more actively involved in their children's lives, could be role models, could be community leaders, and right now they're locked up for a nonviolent offense. --President Barack Obama On July 13, 2015, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of forty-six... |
2017 |
| Margaret Hu |
Crimmigration-counterterrorism |
2017 Wisconsin Law Review 955 (2017) |
The discriminatory effects that may stem from biometric ID cybersurveillance and other algorithmically-driven screening technologies can be better understood through the analytical prism of crimmigration-counterterrorism: the conflation of crime, immigration, and counterterrorism policy. The historical genesis for this phenomenon can be traced... |
2017 |
| Rachel Nadas, Jayesh Rathod |
Damaged Bodies, Damaged Lives: Immigrant Worker Injuries as Dignity Takings |
92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1155 (2017) |
In 2012, Alberto, a forty-three-year-old undocumented day laborer of Guatemalan origin, was hired by a contractor in northern Virginia, along with three other workers. As is often the case with day labor hiring, the contractor did not inform Alberto in advance about the type of work he would be doing. When Alberto arrived at the work site--a... |
2017 |
| Sirine Shebaya |
Does the Priority Enforcement Program Solve the Constitutional Problems with Ice Detainers? |
13 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 566 (Fall, 2017) |
In November 2014, President Obama issued a long-awaited executive action on immigration. The executive action included two critical components: first, a grant of deferred action to qualifying undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents and to persons who entered the United States as children; and second, a series of changes... |
2017 |
| Leticia M. Saucedo |
Employment Authorization and Immigration Status: the Janus-faced Immigrant Worker |
43 Ohio Northern University Law Review 471 (2017) |
This Essay explores the distinct identities of immigrant workers. The ancient myth of Janus as the gatekeeper who looks both backward and forward captures the duality of immigrant workers, who are both immigrants and workers. On one hand the immigrant worker has a past that might include an undocumented entry into or overstay in the United States;... |
2017 |
| Kelly L. Anderson |
Enforcing Rights for Immigrants Facing the Ultimate Criminal Penalty: Deportation |
80 Albany Law Review 995 (2016-2017) |
In the United States, the death penalty is considered the ultimate punishment for the commission of a crime. A criminal defendant may be eligible for death if convicted of the most heinous type of crime--usually some form of aggravated first-degree murder. Because death is such a severe punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court has outlined a number of... |
2017 |
| Jenny-Brooke Condon |
Equal Protection Exceptionalism |
69 Rutgers University Law Review 563 (Winter, 2017) |
Equal protection doctrine addressed to immigrants' rights is thoroughly exceptional. It is an amalgam of super-deference, suspect class treatment, and even intermediate scrutiny, depending upon whether immigrants are present in the United States lawfully or not, and whether a state or federal classification is at issue. No other area of equal... |
2017 |
| Angela D. Morrison |
Executive Estoppel, Equitable Enforcement, and Exploited Immigrant Workers |
11 Harvard Law & Policy Review 295 (Spring, 2017) |
Unauthorized workers in abusive workplaces have found themselves in a tug-of-war between federal agencies that seek to protect the workers under federal workplace laws on the one hand, and federal agencies that seek to prosecute or deport the workers on the other hand. Federal law contains a host of workplace protections designed to prohibit... |
2017 |
| Katherine Conway |
Fundamentally Unfair: Databases, Deportation, and the Crimmigrant Gang Member |
67 American University Law Review 269 (October, 2017) |
Provocative language painting immigrants as dangerous criminals and promises of increased immigration enforcement were cornerstones of Donald J. Trump's presidential candidacy. As president, he has maintained this rhetoric and made good on many of his promises by broadening the definition of criminal conduct for immigration enforcement purposes,... |
2017 |
| Jennifer C. Critchley , Lisa J. Trembly |
Historical Review, Current Status and Legal Considerations Regarding Sanctuary Cities |
306-JUN New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 32 (June, 2017) |
Historically, sanctuary cities developed in response to the Central American Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s, when immigrants from Central America sought refuge in the United States but were denied asylum. During the movement, churches and religious organizations sought to hide, shelter and feed Central American immigrants who fled their region's... |
2017 |
| Stella Burch Elias |
Immigrant Covering |
58 William and Mary Law Review 765 (February, 2017) |
Over the last ten years there has been a marked shift in U.S. immigration law away from reliance upon statutory authorization and regulatory provisions to subregulatory or liminal rules and discretionary decision-making. This trend is apparent in both federal immigration law and in state and local rulemaking affecting immigrant communities. This... |
2017 |
| Andrew Tae-Hyun Kim |
Immigrant Passing |
105 Kentucky Law Journal 95 (2016-2017) |
The metaphor of America as a melting-pot is as old as this country's founding. In its aspirational reach and inclusive vision, this storied narrative is alluring. This assimilationist norm is deeply woven into our culture and laws. But the demand to assimilate can easily cross the line into unlawful discrimination and exact untold harms on an... |
2017 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Immigration and Civil Rights in the Trump Administration: Law and Policy Making by Executive Order |
57 Santa Clara Law Review 611 (2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 612 I. The Obama Administration on Immigration. 616 A. Enforcement: Record Crime-Based Removals. 616 B. Relief for the Undocumented: DACA and DAPA. 625 C. Failed Immigration Reform. 626 II. President Trump: Aggressive Immigration Enforcement by Executive Order. 628 A. The Travel Ban and the Redos. 630 B. The... |
2017 |
| Jennifer M. Chacón |
Immigration and the Bully Pulpit |
130 Harvard Law Review Forum 243 (May, 2017) |
One evening in early February, I sat in a nondescript hall in a local community center in a Southern California city. This city is over seventy-five percent Latino, and a sizable population of unauthorized immigrants live and work alongside U.S. citizens here. In addition to inflicting widespread emotional pain, full enforcement of the nation's... |
2017 |
| David S. Rubenstein, Pratheepan Gulasekaram |
Immigration Exceptionalism |
111 Northwestern University Law Review 583 (2017) |
Abstract--The Supreme Court's jurisprudence is littered with special immigration doctrines that depart from mainstream constitutional norms. This Article reconciles these doctrines of immigration exceptionalism across constitutional dimensions. Historically, courts and commentators have considered whether immigration warrants exceptional... |
2017 |
| Virgil Wiebe |
Immigration Federalism in Minnesota: What Does Sanctuary Mean in Practice? |
13 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 581 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction. 582 I. What is Sanctuary?. 583 II. The Home as Sanctuary--The Limits to One's Castle. 585 III. Houses of Worship--The Quintessential Sanctuaries. 588 A. The Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s in Minnesota. 589 B. The New Sanctuary Movement in Minnesota. 591 C. Legal Issues Facing Sanctuary Congregations. 593 IV. Schools, Colleges, and... |
2017 |
| Robin Jacobson |
Immigration in Between |
52 Tulsa Law Review 529 (Spring, 2017) |
Hiroshi Motomura, Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford University Press 2014) Pp. 360. Hardcover $31.95. Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (University of California Press 2014) Pp. 232. Hardcover $65.00. Paperback $27.95. Systems of immigration are not simply national... |
2017 |
| Matthew Lindauer, Brooklyn College, cuny, Australian National University, matthew.lindauer@anu.edu.au |
Immigration Policy and Identification Across Borders |
12 Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 280 (December, 2017) |
Immigration policies can express disrespect for members of society, nonmembers, or both. Proponents of the traditional state sovereignty view on immigration have generally held that only policies in the first and third categories could be moral wrongs--it is morally regrettable, perhaps, but not morally impermissible for a state to implement... |
2017 |
| Ilya Somin |
Immigration, Freedom, and the Constitution |
40 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Pol'y 1 (April, 2017) |
In recent years, many conservatives have come to favor a highly restrictionist approach to immigration policy. But that position is in conflict with their own professed commitment to principles such as free markets, liberty, colorblindness, and enforcing constitutional limits on the power of the federal government. These values ultimately all... |
2017 |
| M. Isabel Medina |
In Search of the Nation of Immigrants: Balancing the Federal State Divide |
20 Harvard Latinx Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring, 2017) |
Issues raising the role of immigration and immigrants and the relationship between the federal government and the states under our constitutional framework have dominated the national dialogue this past year, and promise to continue to challenge us in years to come. They are questions that tested us at the founding of this republic and that... |
2017 |
| Lori A. Nessel |
Instilling Fear and Regulating Behavior: Immigration Law as Social Control |
31 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 525 (Spring, 2017) |
Probably no other area of American law has been so radically insulated and divergent from those fundamental norms of constitutional right, administrative procedure, and judicial role that animate the rest of our legal system. As to [noncitizens seeking admission], the decisions of executive or administrative officers, acting within powers expressly... |
2017 |
| Erin M. Adam |
Intersectional Coalitions: the Paradoxes of Rights-based Movement Building in Lgbtq and Immigrant Communities |
51 Law and Society Review 132 (March, 2017) |
Over the past decade, inter- and intra-movement coalitions composed of organizations within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) and immigrant rights movements have formed at the local level. These coalitions speak to a massive organizing effort that has achieved some rights campaign successes. However, coalition unity that... |
2017 |
| Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia |
Is Immigration Law National Security Law? |
66 Emory Law Journal 669 (2017) |
Introduction. 670 I. Executive Branch. 672 A. Refugees. 672 B. Central American Families. 674 C. Restrictions Based on Race, Religion, Nationality, and Citizenship. 676 1. Legality. 678 2. Feasibility. 680 3. Moral Considerations: American Identity and Reputation. 681 II. Legislative Branch. 682 A. Comprehensive Immigration Reform. 682 B.... |
2017 |
| Jason A. Cade |
Judging Immigration Equity: Deportation and Proportionality in the Supreme Court |
50 U.C. Davis Law Review 1029 (February, 2017) |
Though it has not directly said so, the United States Supreme Court cares about proportionality in the deportation system. Or at least it thinks someone in the system should be considering the justifiability of removal decisions. As this Article demonstrates, the Court's jurisprudence across a range of substantive and procedural challenges over the... |
2017 |
| Panelists Hasan Shafiqullah, Amy Taylor, Martin Batalla, Michael Wildes, Anthony Enriquez, Moderated by: Javeria Ahmed, Attorney-in-Charge, Immigration Law Unit, The Legal Aid Society, Director of Legal Services, Make the Road New York, Member, Make the R |
Life after Daca: Immigration Reform in the Age of Trump |
24 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 105 (Fall, 2017) |
MS. JAVERIA AHMED: Hi everyone. Can you hear me okay? Welcome to the Fall Symposium for the Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice. My name is Javeria Ahmed, I'm the Editor in Chief and I'm really excited to have you guys with us tonight. The topic that we'll be discussing is the revocation of DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals... |
2017 |
| Azadeh Shahshahani |
Local Police Entanglement with Immigration Enforcement in Georgia |
2017 Cardozo Law Review de novo 105 (2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 105 I. Section 287(g). 106 II. House Bill 87. 111 III. Secure Communities. 113 IV. Priority Enforcement Program. 116 Conclusion. 118 |
2017 |
| James M. Rice |
Looking past the Label: an Analysis of the Measures Underlying "Sanctuary Cities" |
48 University of Memphis Law Review 83 (Fall, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 85 II. Background. 90 A. Religious Community Development of the Sanctuary Movement. 90 B. Increased Interior Enforcement and the Expansion of the Sanctuary Movement. 92 III. Immigration Enforcement and The Impact of Sanctuary Measures. 96 A. Level of Immigration Enforcement. 97 B. The Effect of Sanctuary Measures on ICE. 98 1.... |
2017 |
| Elvia R. Arriola , Virginia M. Raymond |
Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-profit Detention Centers |
15 Santa Clara Journal of International Law L. 1 (February 1, 2017) |
It gives me much pleasure to participate in this hunger strike. I cannot bear this punishment any more. I am dying of desperation, of this injustice, of this cruelty. We are immigrants, not criminals. To treat us like this--they must have no heart, they are of iron--as if we are not human. They treat us like dogs. Maribel, in the T. Don Hutto... |
2017 |
| Evangeline Dech |
Most RelevantNonprofit Organizations: Humanizing Immigration Detention |
53 California Western Law Review 219 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 219 I. A History of Immigration Detention. 223 A. Ellis Island. 223 B. Immigration Regulation as a Means of Racial Discrimination. 224 C. From Mass Incarceration of Minorities to Mass Immigration Detention. 227 II. Private Prison Companies Take Over Immigration Detention Centers. 231 III. Problems with Both... |
2017 |
| Sameer M. Ashar |
Movement Lawyers in the Fight for Immigrant Rights |
64 UCLA Law Review 1464 (December, 2017) |
As immigration reform initiatives driven by established advocacy organizations in Washington, D.C. were successively defeated in the mid-to-late 2000s, movement-centered organizations and newly created formations of undocumented youth mobilized against the federal-local immigration enforcement regime of the Bush and Obama administrations. This... |
2017 |
| Sarah Sherman-Stokes |
No Restoration, No Rehabilitation: Shadow Detention of Mentally Incompetent Noncitizens |
62 Villanova Law Review 787 (2017) |
ORIGINALLY from Haiti, Martin immigrated to the United States as a teenager with his mother and two brothers, all of them Lawful Permanent Residents. Sometimes living with his older brother, sometimes on the street, Martin had always required extra help to perform daily tasks. He never graduated from high school, and indeed barely made it through... |
2017 |
| Emily Ryo |
On Normative Effects of Immigration Law |
13 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 95 (February, 2017) |
Can laws shape and mold our attitudes, values, and social norms, and if so, how do immigration laws affect our attitudes or views toward minority groups? I explore these questions through a randomized laboratory experiment that examines whether and to what extent short-term exposures to anti-immigration and pro-immigration laws affect people's... |
2017 |
| Francesca Strumia , Asha Kaushal |
Opening the Ranks of Constitutional Subjects: Immigration, Identity, and Innovation in Italy and Canada |
18 German Law Journal 1657 (December 1, 2017) |
The relationship between immigration and constitutional identity is simultaneously obvious and evasive. This Article explores that relationship through a comparative case study of Italy and Canada. It begins with a conceptual analysis of the role of immigration against the backdrop of collective identity, constitutional identity, and constitutional... |
2017 |