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Immigration Notes

American Courts and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees: A Need for Harmony in the Face of a Refugee Crisis

Vol. 131 No. 5 March 2018 Introduction The international refugee regime is one of the most frequently applied bodies of international law in domestic settings worldwide. The 1951 Convention Relating...

Executive Power Blog Essay

Immigration Enforcement Under Trump: A Loose Cannon

February 21, 2018 The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policy is a loose cannon, targeting noncitizens who have long been protected under prosecutorial discretion. The President has unleashed...

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Immigration Book Review

Unsettling History

Vol. 131 No. 4 February 2018 At the time she set out to write City of Inmates, Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández wanted to tell the story of the “long rise...

Jennifer M. Chacón

Immigration Blog Essay

Municipal Suffrage, Sanctuary Cities, and the Contested Meaning of Citizenship

January 19, 2018 In November 2016, the city of San Francisco enacted a ballot initiative that was somewhat overshadowed by other election results. It permitted noncitizens with...

Kenneth Stahl

Immigration Recent Case

Lunn v. Commonwealth

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds that Local Law Enforcement Lacks Authority to Detain Pursuant to ICE Detainers.

Vol. 131 No. 2 December 2017

Immigration Leading Case

Maslenjak v. United States

Vol. 131 No. 1 November 2017 Fifty years ago, in the landmark decision Afroyim v. Rusk, the Supreme Court enshrined a fundamental guarantee: the government cannot involuntarily strip native-born U.S....

Immigration Case Comment

Equality, Sovereignty, and the Family in Morales-Santana

Vol. 131 No. 1 November 2017 In Sessions v. Morales-Santana, the Supreme Court encountered a body of citizenship law that has long relied on family membership in the construction of...

Kristin A. Collins

Immigration Blog Essay

Immigration, Federal Authority, and City Hall

October 19, 2017 Cities are once again center stage in our national debate over immigration. A decade ago, the focus was on whether cities can participate in...

Rick Su

Immigration Blog Essay

Reforming Criminal Justice in an Era of Mass Deportation

October 17, 2017 During the Obama administration, officials deported a record number of immigrants, immigrant detention ballooned, and immigration crimes became the majority of federal prosecutions. Since...

Ingrid Eagly

Executive Power Essay

Immigration and the Bully Pulpit

Vol. 130 No. 7 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...

Jennifer M. Chacón