| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Engy Abdelkader |
Immigration in the Era of Trump: Jarring Social, Political, and Legal Realities |
44 Harbinger 76 (4/24/2020) |
In 2020, immigration is proving to be an election year issue. The Trump reelection campaign is strategically leveraging it as a political narrative to win votes while further polarizing an already fractured nation along ideological and partisan lines. Indeed, a review of related public opinion surveys may prove illuminating on this score. According... |
2020 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2009-13: a New Era of Immigration Law Unexceptionalism |
68 Oklahoma Law Review 57 (Fall, 2015) |
Introduction. 58 I. The 2009 Term. 66 A. Padilla v. Kentucky: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Based on Immigration Advice. 66 B. Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder: Removal for Misdemeanor Drug Possession. 71 C. Kucana v. Holder: Judicial Review of Motions to Reopen. 75 II. The 2010 Term. 77 A. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting: Federal Preemption of a... |
2015 |
| Bianca N. DiBella , Michael C. Duffey |
IMMIGRATION LAW |
74 Mercer Law Review 1465 (Summer, 2023) |
This Article surveys cases from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022, in which immigration law was a central focus of the case. The Article begins with a discussion of cases addressing procedural and jurisdictional issues and the interpretation of decisions by lower and state... |
2023 |
| Hiroshi Motomura |
Immigration Law after a Century of Plenary Power: Phantom Constitutional Norms and Statutory Interpretation |
100 Yale Law Journal 545 (December, 1990) |
I. Plenary Power as Constitutional Law A. Classical Immigration Law B. Plenary Power in the Early Modern Era II. Phantom Norms, Statutory Interpretation, and Constitutional Change A. Constitutional Norms and Statutory Interpretation B. The Emergence of Phantom Norm Decisionmaking in Immigration Law C. Constitutional Change: From Phantom Norms to... |
1990 |
| Maria Jockel , Principal, Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd. |
Immigration Law and Enforcement in Australia |
2009 Aspatore 4861184 (December, 2009) |
Immigration law in Australia continues to be a fundamental part of nation building. As a relatively young nation, Australia has continued to rely on its immigration laws and policies to meet the policies and priorities of the government of the day. The Australian Constitution at Section 51(xix) gives the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia the... |
2009 |
| Sandra Guerra Thompson |
Immigration Law and Long-term Residents: a Missing Chapter in American Criminal Law |
5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 645 (Spring, 2008) |
I am a criminal law professor. I know about penal codes, police practices, sentencing, and the use of incarceration to punish criminals. Like most criminal law professors, I know precious little about American immigration law. I have always considered it to be a different part of the law school curriculum, and one that had little, if anything, to... |
2008 |
| Geoffrey Heeren |
IMMIGRATION LAW AND SLAVERY: RETHINKING THE MIGRATION OR IMPORTATION CLAUSE |
2023 Wisconsin Law Review 1125 (2023) |
The origins of immigration law are deeply connected to slavery. An examination of that connection calls the constitutional foundation for immigration law into question, alters the calculus for judicial review of federal immigration action, reframes our understanding of federalism, and lays bare the nation's exploitative dependence on immigrant... |
2023 |
| John A. Scanlan |
Immigration Law and the Illusion of Numerical Control |
36 University of Miami Law Review 819 (September, 1982) |
When I began work on this article, at home, I had hoped to quote a legal realist, but instead managed to find only a few lines out of Yeats: Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. This proves, I guess, that it is dangerous to try to research a difficult legal question in the privacy... |
1982 |
| Nancy Morawetz , Natasha Fernández-Silber |
Immigration Law and the Myth of Comprehensive Registration |
48 U.C. Davis Law Review 141 (November, 2014) |
This Article identifies an insidious misconception in immigration law and policy: the myth of comprehensive registration. According to this myth -- proponents of which include members of the Supreme Court, federal and state officials, and commentators on both sides of the immigration federalism debate--there exists a comprehensive federal alien... |
2014 |
| Stephen Shie-Wei Fan |
Immigration Law and the Promise of Critical Race Theory: Opening the Academy to the Voices of Aliens and Immigrants |
97 Columbia Law Review 1202 (May, 1997) |
As a movement, critical race theory endeavors to account for the voices of people of color by exploring the systemic and pervasive nature of racism in society, and by scrutinizing the ways in which current rights jurisprudence fails to attend fully to the ubiquity of racialized attitudes both in society at large and within the legal system itself.... |
1997 |
| Michael J. Wishnie |
Immigration Law and the Proportionality Requirement |
2 UC Irvine Law Review 415 (February, 2012) |
I. Proportionality Review Outside Immigration Law. 418 II. Proportionality Review in Immigration Law. 424 A. Removal as a Punitive Sanction. 425 1. Removal of Permanent Residents. 427 2. Removal of Non-LPRs. 428 B. Re-entry Bars as a Punitive Sanction. 431 C. Case-by-Case Proportionality Review in Immigration Cases. 435 D. Categorical... |
2012 |
| Kerry Abrams |
Immigration Law and the Regulation of Marriage |
91 Minnesota Law Review 1625 (June, 2007) |
Introduction. 1626 I. Marriage and Immigration Law. 1633 A. Marriage as a Central Organizing Principle. 1634 B. Congress's Plenary Power to Regulate Immigration. 1638 II. Regulating Courtship. 1647 A. Family Law and Courtship. 1647 B. Immigration Law and Courtship. 1650 1. Fiancé Visas. 1650 2. The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. 1653... |
2007 |
| Wendy E. Parmet |
Immigration Law as a Social Determinant of Health |
92 Temple Law Review 931 (Summer, 2020) |
Public health research demonstrates that population health is shaped in large measure by numerous social factors, widely known as the social determinants of health. This Essay argues that immigration law acts as a social determinant that affects the health of both noncitizens and citizens. Looking at several of the Trump administration's regulatory... |
2020 |
| Cecilia Menjívar |
Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization |
10 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 353 (2014) |
borders, enforcement, immigration This review focuses on the enactment of borders beyond the physical demarcation of the nation, to encompass the entire migratory process, with particular attention to practices in the United States and the European Union. It addresses the twin processes of the externalization (outsourcing) and internalization... |
2014 |
| Leigh Ainsworth |
Immigration Law Isn't So "Civil" Anymore: the Criminal Nature of the Immigration System |
53 American Criminal Law Review Online 30 (2016) |
Immigration law finds its roots early in the creation of the United States. The Constitution gives Congress the power to enact laws governing the naturalization of non-citizens, underscoring the importance of both immigration and citizenship to this country. The subsequent Naturalization Act of 1790 laid down the first requirements for obtaining... |
2016 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
IMMIGRATION LAW LESSONS FROM DEPORTED AMERICANS: LIFE AFTER DEPORTATION TO MEXICO |
50 Southwestern Law Review 305 (2021) |
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 |
| Jan Ting |
Immigration Law Reform after 9/11: What Has Been and What Still Needs to Be Done |
17 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 503 (Fall 2003) |
So here we are, eighteen months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), and the most significant event of the past eighteen months is what did not happen. The United States has not experienced another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. Would any of us have dared to so predict eighteen months ago? Why have we experienced no... |
2003 |
| María Pabón López , Roxana A. Davis |
Immigration Law Spanish-style Ii: Spain's Voluntary Immigrant Return Plan and the New Push for Circular Migration |
25 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 79 (Spring 2011) |
I. Introduction. 80 II. Overview of Spain's Immigration Law and its Latest Reform. 82 III. Spain's Economic Crisis and its Impact on Immigrants. 85 A. The Spanish Economy and the Global Crisis. 85 B. The Impact of the Crisis on Immigrants. 86 1. Unemployment. 86 2. Poverty. 87 3. Increased Reliance on the Informal Economy. 88 4. Greater... |
2011 |
| Michael A. Olivas |
Immigration Law Teaching and Scholarship in the Ivory Tower: a Response to Race Matters |
2000 University of Illinois Law Review 613 (2000) |
Why does one write? Why does one respond to another's writing? What sources does one consult and cite as influences? In Race Matters: Immigration Law and Policy Scholarship, Law in the Ivory Tower, and the Legal Indifference of the Race Critique, Professor Kevin Johnson offers an interesting and provocative response to these and other key questions... |
2000 |
| Kitty Calavita |
Immigration Law, Race, and Identity |
3 Annual Review of Law and Social Science Sci. 1 (2007) |
ethnicity, naturalization, exclusion, Hurricane Katrina This review examines the scholarship at the intersection of immigration law, race, and identity. Historically, much of the literature has focused on the ways immigration law has constructed, and been constructed by, racial categories. I argue that African American racialization has been a... |
2007 |
| Shalini Bhargava Ray |
IMMIGRATION LAW'S ARBITRARINESS PROBLEM |
121 Columbia Law Review 2049 (November, 2021) |
Despite deportation's devastating effects, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) specifies deportation as the penalty for nearly every immigration law violation. Critics have regularly decried the INA's lack of proportionality, contending that the penalty often does not fit the offense. The immigration bureaucracy's implementation of the INA,... |
2021 |
| Richard Klein |
Immigration Laws as Instruments of Discrimination: Legislation Designed to Limit Chinese Immigration into the United Kingdom |
7 Touro International Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring 1997) |
C1-2CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. 2 I. A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. 5 A. France: Legislation Relating to Immigration from the Former French Colonies. 6 B. Germany: Immigration, Citizenship and Naturalization of the Non-European Immigrant. 15 II. THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION TO GREAT BRITAIN. 17 A. The Treatment of the Chinese. 17... |
1997 |
| Peter Margulies |
IMMIGRATION LAW'S BOUNDARY PROBLEM: DETERMINING THE SCOPE OF EXECUTIVE DISCRETION |
74 Hastings Law Journal 679 (February, 2023) |
In immigration law, executive discretion has become contested terrain. Courts, officials, and scholars have rarely distinguished between regulatory discretion, which facilitates exclusion and removal of noncitizens, and protective discretion, which safeguards noncitizens' reliance interests. Moreover, courts have long discerned an internal-external... |
2023 |
| Carrie Rosenbaum |
Immigration Law's Due Process Deficit and the Persistence of Plenary Power |
28 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 118 (2018) |
INTRODUCTION. 119 I. Detention of Asylum Seekers. 120 II. Substantive Due Process Rights of Noncitizens. 125 A. Zadvydas v. Davis and Clark v. Martinez. 126 1. Zadvydas v. Davis. 126 2. Clark v. Martinez. 128 B. Rodriguez-Fernandez v. Wilkinson. 129 C. Demore v. Kim. 130 D. Jennings v. Rodriguez. 132 III. R.I.L-R--Substantive Due Process Asylum... |
2018 |
| Michael Kagan |
Immigration Law's Looming Fourth Amendment Problem |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 125 (November, 2015) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 126 I. Canary in the Coal Mine: The Trouble with ICE Detainers. 130 II. Foundations of a Parallel Universe. 135 a. plenary power, not enumerated power. 135 b. the civil-criminal distinction. 137 c. the normalization of unrestrained immigration authority. 139 III. The Decline of the Parallel Universe. 142 a.... |
2015 |
| Fatma Marouf |
IMMIGRATION LAW'S MISSING PRESUMPTION |
111 Georgetown Law Journal 983 (May, 2023) |
The presumption of innocence is a foundational concept in criminal law but is completely missing from quasi-criminal immigration proceedings. This Article explores the relevance of a presumption of innocence to removal proceedings, arguing that immigration law has been designed and interpreted in ways that disrupt formulating any such presumption... |
2023 |
| Ruchir Patel |
Immigration Legislation Pursuant to Threats to Us National Security |
32 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 83 (Winter 2003) |
This article will examine the United States' immigration legislation in the face of threats to national security. Throughout history foreign enemies have threatened the American way of life, from the Germans in World War I, to the spread of Communism, to the current threat of terrorism. As history has demonstrated, the U.S. has taken drastic... |
2003 |
| Hiroshi Motomura |
Immigration Outside the Law |
108 Columbia Law Review 2037 (December, 2008) |
In current debates about undocumented or illegal immigration, three themes have emerged as central: the meaning of unlawful presence, the role of states and cities, and the integration of immigrants. This Essay's starting premise is that a reappraisal of these themes is essential to a conceptual roadmap of this difficult area of law and policy.... |
2008 |
| Stephen Lee |
Immigration Outside the Law. By Hiroshi Motomura. New York, N.y.: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp. 338. $29.95 |
128 Harvard Law Review 1405 (March, 2015) |
Immigration law has become unmerciful. Perhaps it has always been this way, but thanks to Professor Hiroshi Motomura, at least we know that it wasn't always only this way. Motomura's 2006 book, Americans in Waiting, explored a prior era in which arriving immigrants were welcomed so long as they declared their intention to naturalize and become... |
2015 |
| Nathan Harris |
Immigration Policies in America: Unfriendly and Destroying the Agriculture Industry? |
4 Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Law 195 (2011-2012) |
On April 23, 2010, the Arizona State Legislature sent shockwaves through many American communities when it enacted SB 1070, a bill intended to aid in enforcing federal immigration laws within Arizona's borders. In 2008, two years prior to enacting SB 1070, the Arizona legislature adopted HB 2745, known as the Legal Arizona Workers Act. The Act... |
2012 |
| Bill Ong Hing |
Immigration Policies: Messages of Exclusion to African Americans |
37 Howard Law Journal 237 (Winter, 1994) |
To many African Americans, the Coast Guard's interdiction and forced reversal of boats carrying Haitian refugees is a racist act directed at people of African descent. Until recently, this perception of racism in the application of U.S. immigration policies was reinforced by the contrasting news of planeloads and boatloads of Cuban refugees being... |
1994 |
| Anil Kalhan |
Immigration Policing and Federalism Through the Lens of Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy |
74 Ohio State Law Journal 1105 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 1106 II. The Evolution of State and Local Immigration Policing. 1111 A. Unilateral State and Local Initiatives. 1111 B. Cooperative Federalism and Immigration Policing. 1115 C. The Emerging Immigration Federalism Equilibrium. 1120 III. The Emergence of Automated Immigration Policing. 1122 A. NCIC Immigration Violators File. 1122 B.... |
2013 |
| 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 |
| Adela de la Torre, Ph.D., Julia Mendoza |
Immigration Policy and Immigration Flows: a Comparative Analysis of Immigration Law in the U.s. and Argentina |
3 Modern American 46 (Summer-Fall, 2007) |
Lawyers and policy experts within the Latino community need to foster cultural responsibility for immigration reform by participating in the policy dialogue. Although Latino lawyers do not represent the broad American population, they do represent American communities that have been discriminated against because of their cultural and racial... |
2007 |
| Lawrence H. Fuchs |
Immigration Policy and the Rule of Law |
44 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 433 (Winter, 1983) |
There are few issues which cut as deeply into the emotions of Americans as immigration. That is why comprehensive, fundamental reform of immigration policy occurs infrequently. Vast revisions of immigration policy must await the development of a wide consensus before Congress will agree to their enactment. Such reforms have occurred two to four... |
1983 |
| Juan F. Perea |
Immigration Policy as a Defense of White Nationhood |
12 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Persp. 1 (Spring, 2020) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. The Framers' Wish for a White America. 3 II. The Cycles of Mexican Expulsion. 5 III. Deportation and Mass Expulsion: Social Control to Keep America White. 11 |
2020 |
| Yehiel S. Kaplan |
Immigration Policy of Israel: the Unique Perspective of a Jewish State |
31 Touro Law Review 1089 (2015) |
Israel was established in an attempt to create a shelter for Jews in the Diaspora. The Law of Return was enacted several years after the end of the Second World War. The Israeli legislature assumed that since Jews have suffered harsh persecutions and anti-Semitism throughout history, as a minority group, it is legitimate to discriminate in favor of... |
2015 |
| Howard F. Chang |
Immigration Policy, Liberal Principles, and the Republican Tradition |
85 Georgetown Law Journal 2105 (July, 1997) |
In Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel advances two primary theses: one is descriptive, the other is normative. First, Sandel claims that as a descriptive matter, the United States is a procedural republic, in which [t]he political philosophy by which we live is a certain version of liberal political theory. Second, he urges as a normative... |
1997 |
| Bill Ong Hing |
Immigration Policy: Thinking Outside the (Big) Box |
39 Connecticut Law Review 1401 (May, 2007) |
Wal-Mart and other large U.S. companies have run afoul of employer sanctions laws against the hiring of undocumented workers. In order to understand why undocumented workers are so willing to take low-paying U.S. jobs, we need to understand why undocumented workers from Mexico are so readily available, the history of labor migration from Mexico,... |
2007 |
| John Linarelli |
Immigration Politics and Sovereignty: National Responses to "Bad" Aliens |
88 American Society of International Law Proceedings 439 (April 6-9, 1994) |
The panel was convened at 2:30 p.m., Friday, April 8, by its Chair, Karen Engle, who introduced the panelists: Linda Bosniak, Rutgers Law School, Camden; Jean Manas, European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School; Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School; and Stacy Brustin, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. In 1987, Professor... |
1994 |
| Lucas Guttentag |
Immigration Preemption and the Limits of State Power: Reflections on Arizona V. United States |
9 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Liberties 1 (January, 2013) |
Introduction. 1 I. Background. 3 A. The Long Drought. 3 B. S.B. 1070 and the Courts. 7 C. Arizona v. United States. 10 1. Police Inquiries: Limiting Section 2B. 13 2. Federal Control: Foreign Policy and Executive Enforcement Discretion. 15 II. Implications: Restricting State Immigration Enforcement Power. 19 A. Rejecting Inherent Authority. 19 1.... |
2013 |
| Daniel I. Morales |
Immigration Reform and the Democratic Will |
16 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 49 (2013) |
The character of the American immigration regime has remained remarkably stable over many decades. It changes, to be sure, sometimes granting migrants benefits and at other moments cracking down. However, the broad trend is unmistakable: immigration law and the way it is implemented is increasingly harsh and inhumane. This article argues that this... |
2013 |
| Bill Piatt , Ryan Professor of Law |
Immigration Reform from the Outside in |
10 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 269 (Symposium 2008) |
I. Introduction. 270 II. Historical Extremes. 271 III. Contemporary Extreme Positions. 277 A. Closed Border Approach. 278 B. Open Border Plus Amnesty. 280 IV. Moving Inward. 282 A. Why do People Want to come to the United States?. 282 B. What Impact do New Arrivals Have on the Economy?. 282 C. What Would be the Costs and Benefits of Attempting to... |
2008 |
| Rachel Chernov |
IMMIGRATION REFORM IN REFUGEE AND ASYLUM POLICY: DISENTANGLING IMMIGRATION FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY DISCOURSE |
44 Fordham International Law Journal 1029 (April, 2021) |
After September 11, 2001, a large-scale overhaul of existing US immigration infrastructure fused immigration with the country's national security apparatus. Enhanced national security efforts became characterized by increased immigration enforcement and were purportedly justified by government officials' rhetoric portraying newcomers as a threat to... |
2021 |
| Kevin R. Johnson , Bernard Trujillo |
Immigration Reform, National Security after September 11, and the Future of North American Integration |
91 Minnesota Law Review 1369 (May, 2007) |
Ostensibly to meet the challenge of terrorism after September 11, 2001, but also to soothe the nerves of a tense public, the legal terrain surrounding what can be done in the name of national security changed dramatically in the United States over the last five years. Government, and the public, quickly became ready and willing to trade off civil... |
2007 |
| Lucas Guttentag |
Immigration Reform: a Civil Rights Issue |
3 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 157 (August, 2007) |
Introduction. 157 The Civil Rights Perspective. 158 Legalization and Judicial Review. 161 Conclusion. 163 |
2007 |
| Lamar Smith , Edward R. Grant |
Immigration Reform: Seeking the Right Reasons |
28 Saint Mary's Law Journal 883 (1997) |
I. Introduction. 883 II. Six Principles for Guiding Immigration Reform. 893 A. The Human Face of Immigration. 893 B. Setting Immigration Policy in the National Interest. 899 C. Ending the Bifurcated Treatment of Legal Immigration and Illegal Migration. 906 D. Enforcing the Law Against Illegal Immigration: A Fresh Start. 913 E. Removing the... |
1997 |
| Medha D. Makhlouf , Patrick J. Glen |
IMMIGRATION REFORMS AS HEALTH POLICY |
15 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 275 (2022) |
The 2020 election, uniting control of the political branches in the Democratic party, opened up a realistic possibility of immigration reform. Reform of the immigration system is long overdue, but in pursuing such reform, Congress should cast a broad net and recognize the health policies embedded in immigration laws. Some immigration laws undermine... |
2022 |
| Rebecca A. Hufstader |
Immigration Reliance on Gang Databases: Unchecked Discretion and Undesirable Consequences |
90 New York University Law Review 671 (May, 2015) |
The Obama Administration has historically expanded the availability of deferred action, which provides a reprieve from the threat of deportation and work authorization to certain undocumented immigrants, through the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent... |
2015 |
| G.M. Filisko |
Immigration Rx |
96-JUL ABA Journal 64 (July, 2010) |
THE QUEStion of how to revamp U.S. immigration policy hasn't quite moved to the top of the agenda on Capitol Hill, but when the talk about immigration reform does get serious, the ABA plans to be part of the conversation. Actually, the ABA already has taken steps to carve out policy positions on certain immigration issues, and the association is... |
2010 |