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High Cost Of Low-Cost Workers: Missouri Enacts New Law Targeting Employers Of Unauthorized Workers, The, Michael B. Barnett Jun 2009

High Cost Of Low-Cost Workers: Missouri Enacts New Law Targeting Employers Of Unauthorized Workers, The, Michael B. Barnett

Missouri Law Review

This note seeks to explain Missouri's enactment of a law requiring use of E-Verify by certain employers, track recent developments that have made it more difficult to employ unauthorized workers, and advocate the position that this legislation will be upheld in the face of legal challenges. The following Section addresses federal immigration law and the subsequent creation of the E-Verify program. It also examines Missouri's recent enactment that requires some employers to enroll in the E-Verify program and provides stiff penalties for any entity that employs unauthorized workers. Section III considers recent cases out of Arizona, Oklahoma, and Missouri that …


Lawful Permanent Residents: The Forced Bachelors And Bachelorettes Of America, Gisela Alouan Ades Apr 2009

Lawful Permanent Residents: The Forced Bachelors And Bachelorettes Of America, Gisela Alouan Ades

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Keeping Promises To Immigrant Youth, Theo S. Liebmann Apr 2009

Keeping Promises To Immigrant Youth, Theo S. Liebmann

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.


Delivery Of Legal Services To Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems And A Model To Solve Them, Pablo A. Ormachea, William A. Langer Mar 2009

Delivery Of Legal Services To Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems And A Model To Solve Them, Pablo A. Ormachea, William A. Langer

William A Langer

Delivery of Legal Services to Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems and a Model to Solve Them. By Pablo Ormachea & William Langer

Immigrant entrepreneurs not only provide essential support for individual families, but also serve as key engines of economic growth for United States cities. While immigrant small-business owners continuously stimulate growth in various economic sectors, creating new jobs and helping to develop inner-city neighborhoods, they overcome considerable obstacles and barriers to reach these achievements. This article argues that a deeper understanding of such systemic barriers can help to reduce such barriers so that an increasingly larger number of …


Delivery Of Legal Services To Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems And A Model To Solve Them, William A. Langer, Pablo A. Ormachea Jan 2009

Delivery Of Legal Services To Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems And A Model To Solve Them, William A. Langer, Pablo A. Ormachea

William A Langer

Delivery of Legal Services to Immigrant Small Business Owners: The Problems and a Model to Solve Them. By Pablo Ormachea & William Langer

Immigrant entrepreneurs not only provide essential support for individual families, but also serve as key engines of economic growth for United States cities. While immigrant small-business owners continuously stimulate growth in various economic sectors, creating new jobs and helping to develop inner-city neighborhoods, they overcome considerable obstacles and barriers to reach these achievements. This article argues that a deeper understanding of such systemic barriers can help to reduce such barriers so that an increasingly larger number of …


The Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture, Deepening The Legal Profession's Pro Bono Commitment To The Immigrant Poor Jan 2009

The Robert L. Levine Distinguished Lecture, Deepening The Legal Profession's Pro Bono Commitment To The Immigrant Poor

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Representational And Counseling Needs Of The Immigrant Poor, Jennifer L. Colyer, Sarah French Russell, Robert E. Juceam, Lewis J. Liman Jan 2009

The Representational And Counseling Needs Of The Immigrant Poor, Jennifer L. Colyer, Sarah French Russell, Robert E. Juceam, Lewis J. Liman

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Immigration Representation Project: Meeting The Critical Needs Of Low-Wage And Indigent New Yorkers Facing Removal, Joho Annobil Jan 2009

The Immigration Representation Project: Meeting The Critical Needs Of Low-Wage And Indigent New Yorkers Facing Removal, Joho Annobil

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Representation For Immigrants: A Judge's Personal Perspective, Denny Chin Jan 2009

Representation For Immigrants: A Judge's Personal Perspective, Denny Chin

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Barriers To Representation For Detained Immigrants Facing Deportation: Varick Street Detention Facility, A Case Study, Peter L. Markowitz Jan 2009

Barriers To Representation For Detained Immigrants Facing Deportation: Varick Street Detention Facility, A Case Study, Peter L. Markowitz

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reinventar La Esclavitud, Garantizar La Libertad: De Saint-Domingue A Santiago A Nueva Orleáns, 1803-1809, Rebecca J. Scott Jan 2009

Reinventar La Esclavitud, Garantizar La Libertad: De Saint-Domingue A Santiago A Nueva Orleáns, 1803-1809, Rebecca J. Scott

Articles

From French and Creole to Spanish, the domain of the Napoleonic Empire to the king of Spain, crossing the strait separating the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Cuba entailed a change of language and government. Some 18,000 people made that transition between the spring and summer of 1803 during the Revolutionary War in Saint-Dominque. Six years later, many crossed the Gulf of Mexico from Cuba to New Orleans and the recently acquired Louisiana Territory under the authority of a territorial governor and the United States Congress. What would these crossings lead to for those who had …