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Are We Punishing "Illegal Citizen" Children To Deter Parents? Critiquing Birthright Citizenship Through The Citizens-Benefits Question And Citizenship Reductionism, Robert F. Ley Sep 2014

Are We Punishing "Illegal Citizen" Children To Deter Parents? Critiquing Birthright Citizenship Through The Citizens-Benefits Question And Citizenship Reductionism, Robert F. Ley

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

This article proposes that immigration and citizenship law must address the construction of the immigrant child "situated within the family." Counter to scholarly literature which has addressed the need for some form of the best interests of the child standard in immigration to account for unaccompanied minors, and more generally, immigrant children, this article proposes that reformation of immigration law toward a child-centered, or more specifically family-centric, policy requires attending to the flawed presumptions that the "anchor baby" myth creates-that only by devising a language for unintended consequences can we draw closer to recog- nizing the immigrant child as deserving …


Driving Too Fast: Spitzer's Failed Experiment At Immigration Reformation, Katherine Liebner Sep 2007

Driving Too Fast: Spitzer's Failed Experiment At Immigration Reformation, Katherine Liebner

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Exposing Secret Evidence: Eliminating A New Hardship Of United States Immigration Policy, D. Mark Jackson Sep 2000

Exposing Secret Evidence: Eliminating A New Hardship Of United States Immigration Policy, D. Mark Jackson

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No abstract provided.