ImmigrationProf Blog
Covers news, commentary and issues related to immigration law.
Author: Kevin R. Johnson, associate dean for academic affairs and the Mabie-Apallas Public Interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California-Davis, School of Law, Bill O. Hing, a law professor and Asian American Studies Director of Clinical Legal Education at UC-Davis, and Jennifer Chacón, an associate law professor also at UC-Davis, edit ImmigrationProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Immigration Law • Law Professors • University of California, Davis • Law Professor
Recent Posts from ImmigrationProf Blog
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Immigrants can help fight McCain's long war
Ken Bode, a former NBC and CNN correspondent, has this advice to John McCain if he indeed plans a long war in Iraq: You should announce today that you would offer legal, green-card immigrants a…
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McCain wraps us his trip to Mexico
During his recent visit, McCain talked about immigration reform but not before securing the border and cracking down on undocumented immigration. For the full story in the New York Times, click here. ra
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Who is Watching Your International Travels (and Blog Posts?)? The State Department!
The Washington Post reports that "[g]overnment workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356…
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Postville Redux
We have written much about the massive ICE immigration raid in Postville, Iowa last May. Now, the N.Y. Times reports that two supervisors at a the meatpacking plant were arrested Thursday on criminal immigration charges.…
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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Have a great Fourth of July! Click here for an upbeat July 4 story from the Big Apple! KJ
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New Immigration Articles
Burnett, Christina Duffy. "They say I am not an American...": the noncitizen national and the law of American empire. 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 659-718 (2008). Chachere, Katie E. Comment. Keeping America competitive: a multilateral…
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SF Mayor Backs Down From "Sanctuary" Position
The Washington Post reports that "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that the city would begin handing over for deportation juvenile illegal immigrants with drug convictions, reversing a controversial policy of flying the youths…
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Police Chief Honored for Outreach to Immigrants
The Washington, DC-based immigrant-rights group Ayuda honored Fairfax County Police Chief David M. Rohrer at its recent birthday gala. Ayuda honored Rohrer for setting a welcoming tone that encourages immigrants to seek police help when…
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The Supreme Court Declines Lawsuit challenging in-state tuition for undocumented students in Kansas
Despite this setback, Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri-Kansas City Law professor who has represented the plaintiffs in the litigation, vouches to keep fighting. Kobach is also involved in litigation in California. Currently, ten states…
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Religious Leaders Call for Reform
Thanks to America's Voice for this: An array of faith and labor leaders joined voices today at a telephonic press conference to call for a more sensible immigration policy in this country. The assembled leaders…