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Constitutional Law-Aliens-Equal Protection Clause Does Not Require Extension Of Special Immigrant Status To Aliens From Non-Contiguous Countries, Laurie C. Gregory Dec 2015

Constitutional Law-Aliens-Equal Protection Clause Does Not Require Extension Of Special Immigrant Status To Aliens From Non-Contiguous Countries, Laurie C. Gregory

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Enforcing Immigration Equity, Jason A. Cade Nov 2015

Enforcing Immigration Equity, Jason A. Cade

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Congressional amendments to the immigration code in the 1990s significantly broadened grounds for removal while nearly eradicating opportunities for discretionary relief. The result has been a radical transformation of immigration law. In particular, the constriction of equitable discretion as an adjudicative tool has vested a new and critical responsibility in enforcement officials to implement rigid immigration rules in a normatively defensible way, primarily through the use of prosecutorial discretion. This Article contextualizes recent executive enforcement actions within this scheme and argues that the Obama Administration’s targeted use of limited enforcement resources and implementation of initiatives such as Deferred Action for …


Books Received, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law Sep 2015

Books Received, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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No Country For Some Men?: Statelessness In The United States And Lessons From The European Union, Lia G. Melikian Aug 2015

No Country For Some Men?: Statelessness In The United States And Lessons From The European Union, Lia G. Melikian

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Understanding Disability Under The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities And Its Impact On International Refugee And Asylum Law, Vandana Peterson Jul 2015

Understanding Disability Under The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities And Its Impact On International Refugee And Asylum Law, Vandana Peterson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Immigration Reform - Provisions In The Proposed Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1985 Permitting The Use Of Temporary Foreign Workers In The United States - Importing Labor From Mexico, Andrew W. Baker Mar 2015

Immigration Reform - Provisions In The Proposed Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1985 Permitting The Use Of Temporary Foreign Workers In The United States - Importing Labor From Mexico, Andrew W. Baker

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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The Impact Of Third Preference Status (Professionals) On Immigrants As Created By The 1965 Amendment To The Immigration And Nationality Act - Retraction Of Expansion Of Degree Equivalency - Matter Of Portugues Do Atlantico Information Bureau, Inc., Debra A. Egger Jan 2015

The Impact Of Third Preference Status (Professionals) On Immigrants As Created By The 1965 Amendment To The Immigration And Nationality Act - Retraction Of Expansion Of Degree Equivalency - Matter Of Portugues Do Atlantico Information Bureau, Inc., Debra A. Egger

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Immigration - Due Process - The Availability Of Constitutional Safeguards To Detained Cuban Aliens, Garcia-Mir V. Meese, 788 F.2d 1446 (11th Cir. 1986), Cert. Denied, 107 S. Ct. 289 (1986)., Elizabeth G. Marlowe Jan 2015

Immigration - Due Process - The Availability Of Constitutional Safeguards To Detained Cuban Aliens, Garcia-Mir V. Meese, 788 F.2d 1446 (11th Cir. 1986), Cert. Denied, 107 S. Ct. 289 (1986)., Elizabeth G. Marlowe

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Return Of The Jrad, Jason A. Cade Jan 2015

Return Of The Jrad, Jason A. Cade

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Ignacio Diaz Aguilar’s felony conviction for document forgery made him a priority for deportation and disqualified him from the possibility of discretionary relief from removal, despite apparently significant equities and mitigating factors. And yet, when Federal District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein sentenced Mr. Aguilar, he recommended that the government not deport him, even though no legal rules provided him with a route to that result. This essay places Judge Weinstein’s recommendation in a broader context, explaining its importance within the modern deportation regime. Statutory reforms and new agency practices have made criminal history the primary marker of noncitizen undesirability. …