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The Fourth Amendment And Privacy Implications Of Interior Immigration Enforcement, Anil Kalhan
The Fourth Amendment And Privacy Implications Of Interior Immigration Enforcement, Anil Kalhan
Anil Kalhan
This Article proposes privacy as a descriptive and normative framework to analyze the constellation of recent initiatives to expand interior enforcement of federal immigration laws. By expanding the circumstances in which individuals are expected to demonstrate their lawful presence in the United States, these various initiatives seek to transform the significance of immigration and citizenship status in day-to-day life from something largely invisible and irrelevant to something visible and salient in a variety of settings. This transformation, however, carries underappreciated social costs. Building upon scholarship theorizing privacy as protecting a set of social or structural interests, and using the U.S. …
Immigration Enforcement And Federalism After September 11, 2001, Anil Kalhan
Immigration Enforcement And Federalism After September 11, 2001, Anil Kalhan
Anil Kalhan
In recent years, the U.S. federal government has aggressively sought to involve state and local government institutions more extensively and directly in the day-to-day regulation of immigration status and the interior enforcement of federal immigration laws. In this chapter, I discuss two sets of these initiatives - the efforts to involve state and local police in routine immigration enforcement and the development of federal issuance and eligibility standards for state driver's licenses - in order to explore the ways in which these developments may challenge conventional assumptions about the relationships between state and local governments and their non-U.S. citizen residents. …