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A Call For Reform Of Recent Immigration Legislation, Jason H. Ehrenberg Oct 1998

A Call For Reform Of Recent Immigration Legislation, Jason H. Ehrenberg

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 dramatically limit the procedural rights of aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes. Consequently, aliens who have immigrated to the United States to escape persecution in their homelands are deported without adequate hearing or appeal. This Note argues that the laws violate international obligations and Constitutional law. It advocates amending the laws to give the Attorney General discretion over deportation decisions, eliminating retroactive application of deportation for aggravated felons, and reinstating judicial review of deportation or exclusion decisions.


Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The "Alien": Lessons From Social Psychology And The "Promise Enforcement" Cases, Victor C. Romero Oct 1998

Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The "Alien": Lessons From Social Psychology And The "Promise Enforcement" Cases, Victor C. Romero

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Recent legal scholarship suggests that the Supreme Court's decisions on immigrants' rights favor conceptions of membership over personhood. Federal courts are often reluctant to recognize the personal rights claims of noncitizens because they are not members of the United States. Professor Michael Scaperlanda argues that because the courts have left the protection of noncitizens' rights in the hands of Congress and, therefore, its constituents, U.S. citizens must engage in a serious dialogue regarding membership in this polity while considering the importance of constitutional principles of personhood. This Article takes up Scaperlanda's challenge. Borrowing from recent research in social psychology, this …


Introduction: The Indiana Journal Of Global Legal Studies Immigration Project Oct 1998

Introduction: The Indiana Journal Of Global Legal Studies Immigration Project

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


International Law & Ethnic Conflict, By David Wippman, Satvinder S. Juss Oct 1998

International Law & Ethnic Conflict, By David Wippman, Satvinder S. Juss

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Race, The Immigration Laws, And Domestic Race Relations: A "Magic Mirror'' Into The Heart Of Darkness, Kevin R. Johnson Oct 1998

Race, The Immigration Laws, And Domestic Race Relations: A "Magic Mirror'' Into The Heart Of Darkness, Kevin R. Johnson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Population Implosion Of The Developed World: Changing Attitudes Toward Immigration To Support Aging Societies, Leslie E. Schafer Oct 1998

The Population Implosion Of The Developed World: Changing Attitudes Toward Immigration To Support Aging Societies, Leslie E. Schafer

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Learning From Rwanda: Addressing The Global Institutional Stalemate In Refugee Crises, Leslie E. Schafer Oct 1998

Learning From Rwanda: Addressing The Global Institutional Stalemate In Refugee Crises, Leslie E. Schafer

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


The Trojan Horse Of The 21st Century: Immigrants, Foreign Campaign Contributions And International Politics, Kostas A. Poulakidas Oct 1998

The Trojan Horse Of The 21st Century: Immigrants, Foreign Campaign Contributions And International Politics, Kostas A. Poulakidas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas Oct 1998

Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Factum Of The Charter Committee On Poverty Issues: In The Supreme Court Of Canada On Appeal From The Federal Court Of Appeal Between Mavis Baker, Appellant. And The Minister Of Citizenship And Immigration, Respondent., John Terry, Craig Scott Sep 1998

Factum Of The Charter Committee On Poverty Issues: In The Supreme Court Of Canada On Appeal From The Federal Court Of Appeal Between Mavis Baker, Appellant. And The Minister Of Citizenship And Immigration, Respondent., John Terry, Craig Scott

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

This appeal is about the validity of the decision of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (the "Minister") to deny Mavis Baker's application for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds and, in all likelihood, separate her from her children.


Female Circumcision In The Modern Age: Should Female Circumcision Now Be Considered Grounds For Asylum In The United States, Gregory A. Kelson Sep 1998

Female Circumcision In The Modern Age: Should Female Circumcision Now Be Considered Grounds For Asylum In The United States, Gregory A. Kelson

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Refugee Rights: The New Frontier Of Human Rights Protection, Bill Frelick Sep 1998

Refugee Rights: The New Frontier Of Human Rights Protection, Bill Frelick

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Temporary Protection: Towards A New Regional And Domestic Framework, Susan Martin, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Deborah Waller Meyers Jul 1998

Temporary Protection: Towards A New Regional And Domestic Framework, Susan Martin, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Deborah Waller Meyers

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

During the past thirty-five years, the United States has seen the direct influx of thousands of individuals leaving politically unstable countries. While some seeking entry have proved themselves to be refugees and obtained permanent protection in the United States, far more, including a large number of people fleeing civil war, natural disasters, or comparable forms of upheaval in their home countries, have failed to demonstrate that they would be targets of persecution. Yet, their return to their home countries has been complicated by the very circumstances that led to their flight: conflict, violence, and repression. Over time, the United States …


Sex-Based Discrimination In U.S. Immigration Law: The High Court's Lost Opportunity To Bridge The Gap Between What We Say And What We Do , Debra L. Satinoff Jun 1998

Sex-Based Discrimination In U.S. Immigration Law: The High Court's Lost Opportunity To Bridge The Gap Between What We Say And What We Do , Debra L. Satinoff

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Property Scope Of Habeas Corpus Review In Civil Removal Proceedings, Andrea Lovell Apr 1998

The Property Scope Of Habeas Corpus Review In Civil Removal Proceedings, Andrea Lovell

Washington Law Review

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), two 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, eliminated direct judicial review in the federal courts of appeals of final removal orders for aliens convicted of certain enumerated crimes. The legislation also appears to limit the habeas corpus jurisdiction of the federal district courts. While most circuit courts agree that some degree of habeas corpus review of removal orders is constitutionally mandated, several have interpreted AEDPA and IIRIRA as limiting the scope of that review. This Comment argues that the scope …


Return Of The Chancellor's Foot?: Discretion In Permanent Resident Deportation Appeals Under The Immigration Act, Richard Haigh, Jim Smith Apr 1998

Return Of The Chancellor's Foot?: Discretion In Permanent Resident Deportation Appeals Under The Immigration Act, Richard Haigh, Jim Smith

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines recent changes to section 70 of the Immigration Act that allow the minister of immigration to deport Canadian permanent residents who are determined to be a danger to the public without proper procedural safeguards. The authors argue that much of both current theoretical literature on discretion and the history of the development of discretion within the immigration scheme are against these changes. By analyzing how discretion is employed in other, similar, public safety regimes, the authors show that the recent changes violate individual rights and will very likely create more intractable problems than those they set out …


Passage Of Religious Freedom Act Necessary To Fulfill Maryland's National Leadership Role, Kenneth Lasson Mar 1998

Passage Of Religious Freedom Act Necessary To Fulfill Maryland's National Leadership Role, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Three hundred sixty-four years ago this month, two tiny sailing ships arrived near what is now St. Mary's City with the first settlers in Maryland. The Ark and the Dove were sent to the New World by Cecil Calvert. Lord Baltimore had founded his small colony as a haven for those persecuted in England because of their religious beliefs.

On numerous occasions since then - from passage of the Act of Toleration in 1649 to the achievement of full civil liberties for Jews in 1825 to landmark Supreme Court decisions involving the state in the 1960s - Maryland has been …


Global Rights, Local Wrongs, And Legal Fixes: An International Human Rights Critique Of Immigration And Welfare "Reform", Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Kimberly A. Johns Mar 1998

Global Rights, Local Wrongs, And Legal Fixes: An International Human Rights Critique Of Immigration And Welfare "Reform", Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Kimberly A. Johns

UF Law Faculty Publications

The United States enjoys a lofty reputation worldwide as the land of opportunity and dreams, the welcoming home to all who want to be free, the brave new world that embraces huddled masses and offers them limitless possibilities to find freedom, liberty, and happiness. In marked juxtaposition to this welcomeness narrative is the counter-narrative of historic exclusion evidenced by the harsh description of these "huddled masses, yearning to breathe free" as "wretched refuse." Indeed, to describe some immigrants as "wretched refuse" manifests that Lady Liberty's welcome is, at best, highly selective and, at worst, patently discriminatory. The irony, of course, …


Profiling To Screen Non-Immigrant Visa Applicants: The Best And The Worst Of Applied Social Science?, Ibpp Editor Jan 1998

Profiling To Screen Non-Immigrant Visa Applicants: The Best And The Worst Of Applied Social Science?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies some significant Issues for the applications of profiling and highlights the example of screening non-immigrant visa applicants. Some of these Issues may be related to conscious and unconscious biases, including those towards race, ethnicity, and culture.


Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The Alien: Lessons From Social Psychology And The Promise Enforcement Cases, Victor C. Romero Jan 1998

Expanding The Circle Of Membership By Reconstructing The Alien: Lessons From Social Psychology And The Promise Enforcement Cases, Victor C. Romero

Journal Articles

Recent legal scholarship suggests that the Supreme Court's decisions on immigrants' rights favor conceptions of membership over personhood. Federal courts are often reluctant to recognize the personal rights claims of noncitizens because they are not members of the United States. Professor Michael Scaperlanda argues that because the courts have left the protection of noncitizens' rights in the hands of Congress and, therefore, its constituents, U.S. citizens must engage in a serious dialogue regarding membership in this polity while considering the importance of constitutional principles of personhood. This Article takes up Scaperlanda's challenge. Borrowing from recent research in social psychology, this …


Use Of Discretion In Independent Migrant Selection: A Study Of Canadian Immigration Law, Policy And Practice, Philip Lupul Jan 1998

Use Of Discretion In Independent Migrant Selection: A Study Of Canadian Immigration Law, Policy And Practice, Philip Lupul

LLM Theses

Canadian immigration law has traditionally relied upon broad grants of discretionary authority as a tool for immigrant application processing. Such authority has had two facets--a procedural aspect allowing for flexibility in methods and processes for handling applications, and a substantive aspect relating to actual decision making. This thesis examines such discretion in the particular context of the Independent category of migration that is provided for under the current Immigration Act and Regulations. This thesis argues that discretionary power has recently been significantly affected by two evolving trends. Hampered by fiscal constraints, the bureaucracy has sought to reduce usage of positive …


U.S. Income Taxation Of Foreign Parties: A Primer, Ernest R. Larkins Jan 1998

U.S. Income Taxation Of Foreign Parties: A Primer, Ernest R. Larkins

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

Over the last five years for which data are available, the number of foreign corporations showing net income on Form 1120F, U.S. Income Tax Return of a Foreign Corporation, has increased 36.5 percent. [1] In addition, the number of individuals granted temporary stays in the United States as non-immigrants has steadily increased from 9.5 million in 1985 to 24.8 million in 1996, an average annual increase of 9.1 percent. [2] These increases evidence growing opportunities to serve international clients and suggest that tax professionals must have a fundamental working knowledge of the way the U.S. tax system treats foreign parties. …


Front Matter Jan 1998

Front Matter

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.


Economic Espionage: The Front Line Of A New World Economic War Jan 1998

Economic Espionage: The Front Line Of A New World Economic War

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.


Quixotic Attempt? The Ninth Circuit, The Bia, And The Search For A Human Rights Framework To Asylum Law, Shelley M. Hall Jan 1998

Quixotic Attempt? The Ninth Circuit, The Bia, And The Search For A Human Rights Framework To Asylum Law, Shelley M. Hall

Washington Law Review

The Ninth Circuit and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) historically have disagreed about the application of human rights norms in many areas of asylum law. Although recent decisions by the BIA indicate more receptiveness toward the Ninth Circuit's broader approach, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 seeks to stifle judicial review in many areas of immigration law, including asylum. This Comment analyzes the potential impact of the law on the development of asylum jurisprudence and recommends areas for future dialogue between the Ninth Circuit and the BIA.


Immigration Law And The Criminal Alien: A Comparison Of Policies For Arbitrary Deportations Of Legal Permanent Residents Convicted Of Aggravated Felonies, Brent K. Newcomb Jan 1998

Immigration Law And The Criminal Alien: A Comparison Of Policies For Arbitrary Deportations Of Legal Permanent Residents Convicted Of Aggravated Felonies, Brent K. Newcomb

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dual Nationality For Mexicans, Jorge A. Vargas Jan 1998

Dual Nationality For Mexicans, Jorge A. Vargas

San Diego Law Review

In 1995, the government of Mexico began seriously to consider amending its Constitution to allow for dual nationality, whereby a Mexican could be recognized as holding two nationalities at the same time. Legally, the concept prohibits Mexican nationals from voluntarily abandoning their nationality, even if they opt to become naturalized citizens of another country. Two questions arise as one considers dual nationality in Mexico. First, what has really influenced the philosophical change in Mexico regarding dual nationality? Second, why has Mexico started considering dual nationality now?


The Right To Return Under International Law Following Mass Dislocation: The Bosnia Precedent?, Eric Rosand Jan 1998

The Right To Return Under International Law Following Mass Dislocation: The Bosnia Precedent?, Eric Rosand

Michigan Journal of International Law

On the night of May 2, 1997, some twenty-five abandoned Serb houses were set on fire in the Croat-controlled municipality of Drvar, part of the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was clear from all the circumstances that Croats organized the arson of houses in Drvar to obstruct the return of the original Serb residents to the area. Croat authorities then made a concerted effort to resettle displaced Croats in Drvar in order to solidify a stretch of "ethnically-pure" territory adjacent to the Republic of Croatia. These displaced Bosnian Serbs are just a few of the estimated 2.3 million …


The State And The Post-Cold War Refugee Regime: New Models, New Questions, Julie Mertus Jan 1998

The State And The Post-Cold War Refugee Regime: New Models, New Questions, Julie Mertus

Michigan Journal of International Law

The thesis of this essay is that within the refugee regime the move away from states and adherence to states are two sides of the same coin. To some degree the new refugee regime reflects the trend away from both the state and strict notions of sovereignty. Nonetheless, the new regime also exposes the staying power of the statist paradigm. In many respects, the role of states has indeed been altered, but states have retained their role as important and often essential actors. While other observers have commented on specific geographic or thematic changes in the refugee regime, this essay …


Removing The Venom From The Snakehead: Japan's Newest Attempt To Control Chinese Human Smuggling, Ian Peck Jan 1998

Removing The Venom From The Snakehead: Japan's Newest Attempt To Control Chinese Human Smuggling, Ian Peck

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Note examines Japan's 1997 Amendment to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act as a response to illegal Chinese immigration. Part II of the Note identifies and explains the international human smuggling crisis. Part III examines Sino-Japanese human smuggling. Finally, Part IV analyzes the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act in detail and suggests some of the Act's shortcomings.