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Federalism And The Disappearing Equal Protection Rights Of Immigrants, Kevin R. Johnson
Federalism And The Disappearing Equal Protection Rights Of Immigrants, Kevin R. Johnson
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
Jenny-Brooke Condon’s article The Preempting of Equal Protection for Immigrants? analyzes important issues surrounding the constitutional rights of immigrants. Professor Condon in essence contends that the current legislative, executive, and scholarly focus on the distribution of immigration power between the state and federal governments has undermined the Equal Protection rights of legal immigrants in the United States. Despite the contentious national debates over immigration reform, immigrants’ rights have generally been of secondary concern in contemporary immigration scholarship, which is now dominated by analysis of immigration federalism.
Professor Condon undoubtedly is correct that we should not lose sight of the rights …