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Michael J. Wishnie Immigrants and the Right to Petition 78 New York University Law Review 667 (May 1, 2003) Today in the United States, millions of undocumented persons are working long hours for illegally low pay, in workplaces that violate health and safety codes, for employers who defy labor and antidiscrimination laws. Many more fall victim to criminal activity, forced into involuntary servitude and subjected to physical abuse. Yet these immigrants... 2003
Vanessa Canuto Immigrants Are "People" Too: Constitutionalizing Free Speech Protections for Undocumented Immigrants 17 First Amendment Law Review 403 (Spring, 2019) Imagine being a child trapped in a warehouse without your parents, no one to comfort you, and no knowledge of where your family is. Some children are forced to endure this at a young age, but most people cannot fathom the thought. This unfortunate reality is what the U.S. Border Patrol has been ordered to do to hundreds of children who are... 2019
Rebecca Sharpless Immigrants Are Not Criminals: Respectability, Immigration Reform, and Hyperincarceration 53 Houston Law Review 691 (Winter 2016) Mainstream pro-immigrant law reformers advocate for better treatment of immigrants by invoking a contrast with people convicted of a crime. This Article details the harms and limitations of a conceptual framework for immigration reform that draws its narrative force from a contrast with people-- citizens and noncitizens--who have been convicted of... 2016
Bessie Muñoz Immigrants for Sale: Corporate America Puts a Price Tag on Sexual Abuse 17 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 553 (2015) I. Introduction. 554 II. The History Behind Privatization of Immigration Detention Facilities. 558 A. Lobbying for Anti-Immigration Laws. 560 B. Legislative History of the Bed Mandate Provision. 561 III. The History of the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Implementation Procedure in Private Detention Facilities. 563 A. The Creation of National... 2015
Michael A. Olivas Immigrants in the Administrative State and the Polity Following Hurricane Katrina 45 Houston Law Review Rev. 1 (Symposium 2008) This year's Frankel Lecture topic is appropriate for several important reasons. First, Hurricane Katrina stands as one of the most important and tragic events of our time, combining elements of natural disaster, human tragedy, governmental incompetence, private sector indifference, racism, and extraordinary spectacle, as well as countervailing... 2008
Lauren Scheid Immigrants Make America Great: Contemporary Overview of the Executive Authority for Regulation of U.s. Immigration Policy 30 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 525 (2020) The celebrated Broadway musical Hamilton makes it clear that immigrants make America great. European settlers created the thirteen colonies on the east coast of the United States by leaving their home country in search of a better life across the Atlantic. Additionally, all of the Founding Fathers themselves were technically immigrants--they were... 2020
Reviewed by Harvey Gee Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-immigrant Impulse in the United States, Edited by Juan F. Perea. New York: New York University Press. 342 Pp. 1997. 52 Oklahoma Law Review 685 (Winter, 1999) The American Nation has always had a specific ethnic core. And that core has been white. The recently enacted anti-immigration policies which target Asian and Latino immigrants are the latest manifestations of the social construction of these racial groups as foreigners not entitled to the equal protection of the law. This anti-immigrant animus is... 1999
Juan F. Perea Immigrants Out!: the New Nativism and the Anti-immigrant Impulse in the United States 22 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 775 (Summer, 1999) In his new book, Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States, editor Juan F. Perea has compiled a series of essays written by diverse authors on perhaps the most politically and legally volatile issue of the 1990s. Perea and the book's contributors concur in the view that current efforts to enact more... 1999
Connie Chang Immigrants under the New Welfare Law: a Call for Uniformity, a Call for Justice 45 UCLA Law Review 205 (October, 1997) Introduction. 206 I. Supplemental Security Income. 218 A. Changes. 218 B. Impact. 226 II. Alienage Discrimination in the Distribution of Welfare Benefits. 236 A. Graham v. Richardson. 236 B. Mathews v. Diaz. 241 III. Challenging the New Welfare Law. 247 A. The Limits of Plenary Power. 253 1. The Alien Rights Cases. 253 2. The Preemption Cases. 258... 1997
James F. Hollifield , Valerie F. Hunt , Daniel J. Tichenor Immigrants, Markets, and Rights: the United States as an Emerging Migration State 27 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy Pol'y 7 (2008) Since the end of World War II immigration in the core industrial democracies has been increasing. The rise in immigration is a function of market forces (demand-pull and supply-push) and kinship networks, which reduce the transaction costs of moving from one society to another. These economic and sociological forces are the necessary conditions for... 2008
Judge Rosemary Barkett Immigrants, Refugees and Women: International Obligations and the United States 33 Emory International Law Review 493 (2019) PROFESSOR ABDULLAHI AN-NA'IM: Hello. My name is Abdullahi An-Na'im. I teach here at Emory Law School. I am responsible for a center called Center for International and Comparative Law. It is set in the [indiscernible] place in the corner where nobody seems to go. But please, we are delighted that you are here. This is really the highlight of our... 2019
  Immigration -- Practice and Policy Fall 2006 Symposium George Mason University School of Law Civil Rights Law Journal October 18, 2006 17 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 545 (Spring 2007) One of the Civil Rights Law Journal's goals is to bring attention to current civil rights topics and contribute to the legal community's discussion of these important issues. The Civil Rights Law Journal chose immigration as this year's Symposium topic because it has burgeoned into one of the most important national policy debates that cross-cuts... 2007
Kevin R. Johnson Immigration "Disaggregation" and the Mainstreaming of Immigration Law 68 Florida Law Review Forum 38 (2016) Immigration scholars have written volumes on a remarkable outlier of modern American constitutional law. Originally created by the Supreme Court in the nineteenth century to uphold the now-discredited laws excluding Chinese immigrants from American shores, the plenary power doctrine continues to immunize the substantive provisions of the U.S.... 2016
John Medeiros Immigration after Doma: How Equal Is Marriage Equality? 35 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 197 (Fall, 2013) Under current immigration law, there are four primary avenues to lawful permanent residence: family reunification, employment-based immigration, asylum/refugee admission, and diversity based on country of origin. Of these four avenues, family reunification remains a top priority of our country's legal immigration system. This priority is evidenced... 2013
Catherine Norris Immigration and Abduction: the Relevance of U.s. Immigration Status to Defenses under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction 98 California Law Review 159 (February, 2010) In our increasingly mobile world, family relationships and problems often span national borders. These transborder entanglements pose challenges both for individuals and legal regimes. In the late 1970s, as a result of growing awareness of the phenomenon of child abduction by a parent, nations sought to address this issue through the creation of... 2010
Lucas Guttentag Immigration and American Values: Some Initial Steps for a New Administration 35-FALL Human Rights 10 (Fall, 2008) The treacherous debate over immigration was remarkably muted during the presidential campaign. But the system's failures are unchanged, and the need for reform more urgent than ever. Today's dysfunction has multiple causes exacerbated by three seismic developments over the last twelve years. First, enormous changes to the immigration statute... 2008
Karla McKanders Immigration and Blackness 44 Human Rights 20 (2019) Ms. L and her daughter S.S. entered the United States to apply for asylum in November 2017. The Catholic Church helped them flee persecution from their home country. They traveled through 10 countries over four months and requested asylum when they legally presented themselves at a port of entry near San Diego. Ms. L entered California along with... 2019
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
Kevin R. Johnson Immigration and Civil Rights: Is the "New" Birmingham the Same as the "Old" Birmingham? 21 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 367 (December, 2012) Over the past few years, state legislatures have passed immigration enforcement laws at breakneck speed. As one commentator characterized it: Immigration law is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval. The states . . . have taken immigration matters into their own hands. In response to the widespread perception that the federal government cannot or... 2012
Kevin R. Johnson Immigration and Civil Rights: State and Local Efforts to Regulate Immigration 46 Georgia Law Review 609 (Spring, 2012) I. INTRODUCTION. 611 II. FEDERAL PREEMPTION AND IMMIGRATION. 613 III. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE V. WHITING. 619 IV. ARIZONA'S S.B. 1070 AND UNITED STATES V. ARIZONA. 622 A. THE IMPACT OF WHITING ON UNITED STATES V. ARIZONA AND S.B. 1070. 626 B. WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE SUPREME COURT IN ARIZONA V. UNITED STATES?. 627 C. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES LIKELY TO BE... 2012
Susan M. Akram , Maritza Karmely Immigration and Constitutional Consequences of Post-9/11 Policies Involving Arabs and Muslims in the United States: Is Alienage a Distinction Without a Difference? 38 U.C. Davis Law Review 609 (March, 2005) Introduction. 610 I. Dispelling the Myth: Targeting Arab and Muslim Citizens and Noncitizens Before and After September 11, 2001. 611 A. Pre-9/11 Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims. 612 B. Post-9/11 Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims. 620 1. Policies Immediately After 9/11 Directly Targeted Noncitizen Arabs and Muslims. 620 2. Legislation... 2005
Gerald L. Neuman Immigration and Judicial Review in the Federal Republic of Germany 23 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 35 (Fall, 1990) In recent years, scholars have repeatedly questioned prevailing American constitutional doctrines concerning immigration and the rights of aliens, stressing the anomalous character of these doctrines within modern American constitutional practice. This anomaly arises on two levels: the plane of constitutional principle and the plane of judical... 1990
Lupe S. Salinas Immigration and Language Rights: the Evolution of Private Racist Attitudes into American Public Law and Policy 7 Nevada Law Journal 895 (Summer 2007) American history is replete with narrow-minded reactions to speaking languages other than English. The early settlers spoke primarily English; however, many colonists who arrived later spoke other European languages. Regardless, the new settlements inevitably became English-speaking communities. Their numbers and traditions dictated this result.... 2007
Kevin J. Fandl , Nicole Hallett, Christina J. Martin, Sabrina Damast, Amelia Steadman McGowan, Christopher N. Lasch Immigration and Naturalization 52 The Year in Review (ABA) 337 (2018) Our immigration law update for 2017 is particularly practical and controversial, given that it comes on the heels of a number of international crises as well as the inauguration of the Trump Administration, both of which dramatically affect immigration law. We begin with a look at the ongoing refugee crisis from Central America and U.S. actions to... 2018
David W. Austin, Qiang Bjornbak, Josh D. Friedman Immigration and Naturalization Law 45 International Lawyer 329 (Spring, 2011) One of the top ten domestic news stories of 2010 was Arizona's attempts to deal with immigration and lawsuits that followed the passage of S.B. 1070. Although S.B. 1070 is a local measure, it epitomized the tension that underlies local attempts to enforce and influence federal immigration policy. The conflict between state and national approaches... 2011
Michael Blake Immigration and Political Equality 45 San Diego Law Review 963 (November/December 2008) The act of immigration alters several forms of human relationship simultaneously. It represents a change in physical location and so alters the relationship between persons represented by geographic concepts such as territory and property. In immigrating, immigrants acquire a new place in the world that they may understand, in some sense of the... 2008
Karla M. McKanders IMMIGRATION AND RACIAL JUSTICE: ENFORCING THE BORDERS OF BLACKNESS 37 Georgia State University Law Review 1139 (Summer, 2021) Black immigrants are invisible at the intersection of their race and immigration status. Until recently, conversations on border security, unlawful immigration, and national security obscured racially motivated laws seeking to halt the blackening and browning of America. This Article engages with the impact of immigration enforcement at the... 2021
Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, Robert H. McLaughlin Immigration and Techniques of Governance in Mexico and the United States: Recalibrating National Narratives Through Comparative Immigration Histories 29 Law and History Review 573 (May, 2011) There is need of a broader treatment of American history, to supplement the purely nationalistic presentation to which we are accustomed. Immigration histories typically endeavor to describe and hold a nation-state accountable not only for the laws and policies by which it admits some immigrants, but also for those by which it refuses, excludes, or... 2011
Ediberto Roman Immigration and the Allure of Inclusion 35 Seton Hall Law Review 1349 (2005) The legal predicament of Victor Navorski is a classic tale of a man without a country and is unfortunately replete with metaphors for the plight of immigrants to this land. Navorski's saga begins when he is detained at the border of the United States, which in his case is at one of New York City's airports. He is legally unable to leave his port of... 2005
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
Cristina M. Rodríguez Immigration and the Civil Rights Agenda 6 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 125 (April, 2010) I. Introduction. 125 II. The Civil Rights Paradigm. 127 A. Civil Rights as Incorporation. 128 B. Incorporation as Out of Reach. 130 III. The Mutual Benefit and Rule of Law Alternatives. 132 A. Mutual Benefit and Pragmatism. 132 B. The Rule of Law and Proportionality. 135 IV. Conclusion. 145 2010
Louis Henkin Immigration and the Constitution: a Clean Slate 35 Virginia Journal of International Law 333 (Fall, 1994) For post-prandial remarks, at this conference, I have decided to address only a huge subject, to talk only about what you already know, and to invite you to join me in a perhaps-quixotic battle. The title of my remarks is Immigration and the Constitution: A Clean Slate. For many of you, this title will ring bells. Many of you will recall the... 1994
Kai Bartolomeo Immigration and the Constitutionality of Local Self Help: Escondido's Undocumented Immigrant Rental Ban 17 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 855 (Summer 2008) And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred. -John Steinbeck The City of Escondido sits about eighteen miles east of the California coast, just north of the heart of San Diego County. Once the home of ranches, farms and citrus groves, Escondido now has all the benefits of city living. In the words of City promoters, Escondido... 2008
George A. Martínez Immigration and the Meaning of United States Citizenship: Whiteness and Assimilation 46 Washburn Law Journal 335 (Winter 2007) At the outset of the twenty-first century, United States immigration policy has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent years, we have witnessed, among other things, calls for dramatically restricting immigration in light of an alleged threat to American national identity, increased border enforcement associated with thousands... 2007
Leila Higgins Immigration and the Vulnerable Worker: We Built this Country on Cheap Labor 3 American University Labor & Employment Law Forum 522 (2013) In early 2012, the Department of Labor took an unexpected step in support of immigrant workers, changing the way H-2B visas are issued to make it harder both to hire and to exploit immigrant workers. The changes in regulation were the result of years of hard work by advocates for both Union workers, and immigrants. However, by the end of the summer... 2013
Howard F. Chang Immigration and the Workplace: Immigration Restrictions as Employment Discrimination 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 291 (2003) I. The Liberal Ideal and the Cosmopolitan Perspective. 295 A. Immigration Restrictions and Global Economic Welfare. 296 B. Justice and the Alien. 298 II. Immigration Restrictions and National Economic Welfare. 303 A. Effects of Immigration in the Labor Market. 304 1. Effects on Native Workers: Empirical Evidence. 305 2. Income Distribution and the... 2003
Michael T. Light , Isabel Anadon Immigration and Violent Crime: Triangulating Findings Across Diverse Studies 103 Marquette Law Review 939 (Spring, 2020) The dramatic increase in both lawful and unauthorized immigration in recent decades produced a groundswell of research on two questions: (1) Does immigration increase violent crime? and (2) What policy responses are most effective at addressing unauthorized immigration (e.g., sanctuary policies, deportations, etc.)? For the most part, these bodies... 2020
Hiroshi Motomura Immigration and We the People after September 11 66 Albany Law Review 413 (2003) Immigration and citizenship issues are part of a larger discussion about how America should respond to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At the same time, how America should respond to terrorism is part of a larger discussion of immigration and citizenship issues. Both of these discussions are part of an ongoing conversation about... 2003
Jill Keblawi Immigration Arrests by Local Police: Inherent Authority or Inherently Preempted? 53 Catholic University Law Review 817 (Spring, 2004) As a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush's Administration has used immigration policy as its primary weapon in terrorist prevention. Because there are only two thousand federal immigration agents and an estimated eight million undocumented immigrants, this Administration has encouraged the nation's... 2004
Jennifer Gordon Immigration as Commerce: a New Look at the Federal Immigration Power and the Constitution 93 Indiana Law Journal 653 (Summer, 2018) Introduction. 654 I. The Evolution and Impact of the Plenary Power Doctrine. 659 II. The Commerce Clause as a Source of the Immigration Power. 671 A. The Lost Source: The Foreign Commerce Clause. 671 B. A New Source: The Interstate Commerce Clause. 681 The Modern Jurisprudence of the Interstate Commerce Clause. 681 III. The Argument for Rooting the... 2018
Matthew J. Lindsay Immigration as Invasion: Sovereignty, Security, and the Origins of the Federal Immigration Power 45 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Rev. 1 (Winter 2010) This Article offers a new interpretation of the modern federal immigration power. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court and Congress fundamentally transformed the federal government's authority to regulate immigration, from a species of commercial regulation firmly grounded in Congress's commerce authority, into a power that was... 2010
Rick Su Immigration as Urban Policy 38 Fordham Urban Law Journal 363 (November, 2010) Immigration has done more to shape the physical and social landscape of many of America's largest cities than almost any other economic or cultural force. Indeed, immigration is so central to urban development in the United States that it is a wonder why immigration is not explicitly discussed as an aspect of urban policy. Yet in the national... 2010
Peter H. Schuck Immigration at the Turn of the New Century 33 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law L. 1 (Winter, 2001) Migration is perhaps the most insistent world phenomenon of our age. The propensity to migrate in search of a better life has always been among the most powerful of human drives, and perhaps never more than today. Migration theorists attempting to explain population movements often distinguish between so-called push and pull factors. Before the... 2001
David S. Rubenstein Immigration Blame 87 Fordham Law Review 125 (October, 2018) This Article provides the first comprehensive study of blame in the U.S. immigration system. Beyond blaming migrants, we blame politicians, bureaucrats, and judges. Meanwhile, these players routinely blame each other, all while trying to avoid being blamed. As modeled here, these dynamics of immigration blame have catalyzing effects on the... 2018
Manuel D. Vargas Immigration Consequences of Guilty Pleas or Convictions 30 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 701 (2006) The immigration consequences of a guilty plea or conviction in a New York court have increased dramatically in recent years. This is because in recent years the U.S. Congress has several times amended the federal immigration laws--in particular in 1996 when it enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal... 2006
Kate Evans Immigration Detainers, Local Discretion, and State Law's Historical Constraints 84 Brooklyn Law Review 1085 (Summer, 2019) The Trump administration assumed office armed with promises to eradicate unlawful immigration through an all-out assault. There would be no exceptions; everyone was a priority. The administration equated migrants with criminals in statement after statement. President Obama's [f]elons not families became a rallying cry for the Trump administration... 2019
Pedro Gerson IMMIGRATION DETENTION AS AN OBSTACLE TO DECARCERATION 58 San Diego Law Review 535 (August-September, 2021) C1-2Table of Contents 535 I. Introduction. 536 II. Incarceration in the United States. 543 A. The Push Against Criminal Incarceration. 543 B. The Rise of Immigration Detention in the United States. 553 III. Can the Immigrant Replace the Inmate?. 556 A. The Role of Crimmigration. 557 B. The Possibility of Increasing Immigration Detention.... 2021
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Immigration Detention as Punishment 61 UCLA Law Review 1346 (June, 2014) Courts and commentators have long assumed, without significant analysis, that immigration detention is a form of civil confinement merely because the immigration proceedings of which it is part are deemed civil. This Article challenges that deeply held assumption. It harnesses the U.S. Supreme Court's instruction that detention's civil or penal... 2014
Elizabeth Hannah IMMIGRATION DETENTION IS NEVER "PRESUMPTIVELY REASONABLE": STRENGTHENING PROTECTIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS WITH FINAL REMOVAL ORDERS 65 Arizona Law Review 505 (Summer, 2023) Immigration detention is a central feature of the United States' immigration system. Noncitizens facing removal are detained in staggering numbers throughout the removal process, from the initiation of legal proceedings to the issuance of a final removal order. Moreover, as the U.S. government's reliance upon immigration detention has grown, the... 2023
Jennifer J. Lee IMMIGRATION DISOBEDIENCE 111 California Law Review 71 (February, 2023) The immigration system operates through the looming threat of the arrest, detention, and removal of immigrants from the United States. Indiscriminate immigrant arrests result in family separation. Immigrants languish in carceral facilities for months or even years. For most undocumented immigrants, there is no available pathway to citizenship. To... 2023
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