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Mexican Children Of U.S. Citizens: Viges Prin And Other Tales Of Challenges To Asserting Acquired U.S. Citizenship., Lee J. Teran
Mexican Children Of U.S. Citizens: Viges Prin And Other Tales Of Challenges To Asserting Acquired U.S. Citizenship., Lee J. Teran
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Mexican children with a U.S. parent face both historic and current challenges in acquiring U.S. citizenship. Following changes in U.S. immigration law, the number of individuals removed from the United States has swelled dramatically. This campaign against non-citizens has led to the removal of United States citizens, particularly individuals who were born abroad but claim citizenship through a U.S. citizen parent. Citizens are caught in the middle of conflicting goals between government efforts to adjudicate claims to acquired U.S. citizenship and the focus on crime and national security interests. Even though many U.S. parents and their children born abroad are …
Comment: Until The Plenary Power Do Us Part: Judicial Scrutiny Of The Defense Of Marriage Act In Immigration After Flores-Villar, Jessica Portmess
Comment: Until The Plenary Power Do Us Part: Judicial Scrutiny Of The Defense Of Marriage Act In Immigration After Flores-Villar, Jessica Portmess
American University Law Review
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Recentering Foreign Affairs Preemption In Arizona V. United States: Federal Plenary Power, The Spheres Of Government, And The Constitutionality Of S.B. 1070, Patrick J. Charles
Recentering Foreign Affairs Preemption In Arizona V. United States: Federal Plenary Power, The Spheres Of Government, And The Constitutionality Of S.B. 1070, Patrick J. Charles
Cleveland State Law Review
Is foreign affairs preemption concerning immigration an all or nothing approach as the different lower courts and immigration scholars contend? The purpose of this article is to answer this question by recentering foreign affairs preemption in accordance with constitutional intent, an objective reading of Supreme Court precedent, and then reassembling the whole into a workable doctrine. This article will accomplish this in three parts. First, this article provides a brief examination of the plenary power doctrine over immigration, and its constructs according to the Founders' Constitution. This inquiry provides federal courts with the historical guideposts necessary to adjudicate foreign affairs …