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Rodriguez V. Hayes: Government Accountability For Immigrants In Prolonged Detention, Otis Carl Landerholm Oct 2010

Rodriguez V. Hayes: Government Accountability For Immigrants In Prolonged Detention, Otis Carl Landerholm

Golden Gate University Law Review

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chooses to keep many immigrants incarcerated while they await the results of their hearings before immigration judges, appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or second appeals to the federal courts of appeals. Starting with Zadvydas v. Davis in 2001, federal courts have been facing the question of whether such lengthy detentions are permissible under either the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) or the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court in Zadvydas held that indefinite detention “would raise serious constitutional concerns” and decided to construe the prolonged-detention statute at issue “to contain …


When Children Suffer: The Failure Of U.S. Immigration Law To Provide Practical Protection For Persecuted Children, Lisete M. Melo Oct 2010

When Children Suffer: The Failure Of U.S. Immigration Law To Provide Practical Protection For Persecuted Children, Lisete M. Melo

Golden Gate University Law Review

This Comment focuses on the need for statutory change in order to address the policy concerns of family unity and to protect asylee children. Part I looks at how the current state of immigration law stands in relation to derivative asylum claims. Part II examines how courts have interpreted current asylum law and the inconsistency and shortcomings of such judicial interpretations. Part III examines policy concerns associated with the child-parent derivative asylum issue, specifically family unity and practical child protection. Finally, Part IV makes two recommendations: 1) legislative change to current asylum law to allow derivative relief for parents of …


The Exclusionary Rule In Immigration Proceedings: Where It Was, Where It Is, Where It May Be Going, Irene Scharf Oct 2010

The Exclusionary Rule In Immigration Proceedings: Where It Was, Where It Is, Where It May Be Going, Irene Scharf

San Diego International Law Journal

The piece examines the treatment of the Fourth Amendment in immigration courts by surveying its jurisprudential history in those courts and then analyzes the judicial responses thereto. Disparities among circuit court rulings add to the confusion and unpredictability typical of Immigration Court decisions. Finally, the article discusses the difficulties raised by the divergent circuit court opinions and offers suggestions as to how we may resolve these difficulties in accordance with the Constitution's requirement of fair play.


Immigration Law - Butros V. Ins: The Folly Of Finality As An Absolute Bar To Seeking §212(C) Relief From Deportation, Mark Figueiredo Sep 2010

Immigration Law - Butros V. Ins: The Folly Of Finality As An Absolute Bar To Seeking §212(C) Relief From Deportation, Mark Figueiredo

Golden Gate University Law Review

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Immigration Law, Louise E. Garrison, Jimmy L. Hom Sep 2010

Immigration Law, Louise E. Garrison, Jimmy L. Hom

Golden Gate University Law Review

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Immigration Law, Terry Helbush Sep 2010

Immigration Law, Terry Helbush

Golden Gate University Law Review

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Immigration Law, Bill Ong Hing Sep 2010

Immigration Law, Bill Ong Hing

Golden Gate University Law Review

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The Ninth Circuit: No Place For Drug Offenders, Bill Ong Hing Aug 2010

The Ninth Circuit: No Place For Drug Offenders, Bill Ong Hing

Golden Gate University Law Review

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Fact Or Fiction: The Legal Construction Of Immigration Removal For Crimes, Maureen A. Sweeney Jan 2010

Fact Or Fiction: The Legal Construction Of Immigration Removal For Crimes, Maureen A. Sweeney

Faculty Scholarship

Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are deported from the United States each year because they have been convicted of criminal offenses, many quite minor. These deportations occur without any of the constitutional safeguards that generally protect criminal defendants. Immigration authorities rely on cases asserting that such deportations are not punishment for the crime, but merely collateral consequences of the conviction. This article challenges that reasoning. It argues that its factual and doctrinal foundation has completely disintegrated over the last 20 years. Far-reaching changes in immigration law and enforcement have rendered deportation for aggravated felonies a “definite, immediate and largely …


Systemic Failure: Mental Illness, Detention, And Deportation, Bill Ong Hing Dec 2009

Systemic Failure: Mental Illness, Detention, And Deportation, Bill Ong Hing

Bill Ong Hing

Our detention and deportation system failed Tatyana Mitrohina. She was born in Russia with heart defects and deformed hands. She was rejected by her parents for many years, spending her infancy in hospitals and institutions. Though she was later able to move back home, her parents abused her and then abandoned her. She immigrated to the United States as a young teen, adopted by U.S. citizens. After more than a decade, she had a child of her own, whom she abused. Tatyana was diagnosed with mental illness. Although she was convicted of child abuse, the state court recommended medication, counseling, …