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Reaping The Harvest: The Long, Complicated, Crucial Rhetorical Struggle Over Deportation, Daniel Kanstroom
Reaping The Harvest: The Long, Complicated, Crucial Rhetorical Struggle Over Deportation, Daniel Kanstroom
Daniel Kanstroom
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A Modest Proposal: To Deport The Children Of Gay Citizens, & Etc: Immigration Law, The Defense Of Marriage Act And The Children Of Same-Sex Couples, Scott Titshaw
Scott Titshaw
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines the terms “marriage” and “spouse” for federal purposes, clearly prevents the recognition of same-sex spouses under U.S. immigration law. Unless judges and immigration officials are careful to limit it as Congress intended, DOMA might also have a tragic unintended effect on some parent-child relationships. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) employs terms like “born in wedlock” and “stepparent” to define parent-child relationships for various immigration and citizenship purposes. One could argue, therefore, that DOMA prevents INA recognition of parent-child relationships stemming from a same-sex marriage. These relationships determine whether a person can …
Reflections On The Special Humanitarian Parole Program For Haitian Orphans, Whitney A. Reitz
Reflections On The Special Humanitarian Parole Program For Haitian Orphans, Whitney A. Reitz
NYLS Law Review
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A Need For Culture Change: Glbt Latinas/Os And Immigration, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
A Need For Culture Change: Glbt Latinas/Os And Immigration, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
In conversations about Latina/o immigration, such as the one that took place at LLEADS #2: The U.S. Immigration Crises: Enemies at Our Gates or Lady Liberty's Huddled Masses?, there is one issue that we tend not to address. There exists a Latina/o immigration cuento normativo (normative narrative) that obscures and denies an entire group of Latinas/os. This cuento normativo is not only insufficiently attentive to, but is downright erasing of GLBT Latinas/os. In this Article, I want to urge participation in a movement for cultural change within the various and varied comunidades Latinas (Latina/o communities) to embrace a new, inclusive …
Balancing National Security And International Responsibility: The Immigration System’S Legal Duty To Asylees Fleeing Gang Violence In Central America, Margot Kniffin
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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