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Fact Or Fiction: The Legal Construction Of Immigration Removal For Crimes, Maureen A. Sweeney
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 …
Citizenship, In The Immigration Context, Matthew Lister
Citizenship, In The Immigration Context, Matthew Lister
Maryland Law Review
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Bridging The Title Vii Gap: Protecting All Workers From “Work Authorization” Discrimination, Rachel K. Alexander
Bridging The Title Vii Gap: Protecting All Workers From “Work Authorization” Discrimination, Rachel K. Alexander
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…And Your Convicted? Teaching “Justice” To Law Students By Defending Criminal Immigrants In Removal Proceedings, Michael S. Vastine
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor…And Your Convicted? Teaching “Justice” To Law Students By Defending Criminal Immigrants In Removal Proceedings, Michael S. Vastine
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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