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Overstepping: U.S. Immigration Judges And The Power To Develop The Record, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Overstepping: U.S. Immigration Judges And The Power To Develop The Record, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In 1952, Congress established a new federal position to be filled by “special inquiry officers” charged with overseeing deportation cases. These immigration judges—as they eventually came to be called—were assigned to work within the executive branch, namely, the Department of Justice, and they were to be answerable ultimately to a political appointee, the attorney general. Importantly, they received specific statutory authority allowing them to “develop the record” during an immigration case. This power enabled immigration judges to assemble evidence and call, “interrogate, examine, and cross‑examine . . . any witnesses.”
Given that many immigrants who appear in immigration court do …
Abdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray
Abdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray
Indiana Law Journal
Presidential abdication in immigration law has long been synonymous with the perceived nonenforcement of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. President Obama’s never-implemented policy of deferred action, known as DAPA, serves as the prime example in the literature. But can the President abdicate the duty of faithful execution in immigration law by enforcing the law, i.e., by deporting deportable noncitizens? This Article argues “yes.” Every leading theory of the presidency recognizes the President’s role as supervisor of the bureaucracy, an idea crystallized by several scholars. When the President fails to establish meaningful enforcement priorities, essentially making every deportable …
The Immigrant "Other": Racialized Identity And The Devaluation Of Immigrant Family Relations, Anita Maddali
The Immigrant "Other": Racialized Identity And The Devaluation Of Immigrant Family Relations, Anita Maddali
Indiana Law Journal
This Article explores how current terminations of undocumented immigrants’ parental rights are reminiscent of historical practices that removed early immigrant and Native American children from their parents in an attempt to cultivate an Anglo-American national identity. Today, children are separated from their families when courts terminate the rights of parents who have been, or who face, deportation. Often, biases toward undocumented parents affect determinations concerning parental fitness in a manner that, while different, reaps the same results as the removal of children from their families over a century ago. This Article examines cases in which courts terminated the parental rights …
"Coming Out Of The Shadows": Dream Act Activism In The Context Of Global Anti-Deportation Activism, Laura Corrunker
"Coming Out Of The Shadows": Dream Act Activism In The Context Of Global Anti-Deportation Activism, Laura Corrunker
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This Article, based on ethnographic fieldwork with an undocumented, youth-led immigrant rights organization, explores undocumented youth activism in the United States in relation to global anti-deportation movements. The strategies that undocumented youth utilize in their fight for the DREAM Act, a bill that creates provisions for certain undocumented youth to legalize their status, are compared with examples of anti-deportation activism outside the United States. In comparing the DREAM Act movement with anti-deportation movements globally, three points of commonality emerge: (1) leadership of undocumented immigrants; (2) visibility; and (3) measures of "deservingness." This Article argues that comparing examples of immigrant activism …
Disposable Workers: Applying A Human Rights Framework To Analyze Duties Owed To Seriously Injured Or Ill Migrants, Lori A. Nessel
Disposable Workers: Applying A Human Rights Framework To Analyze Duties Owed To Seriously Injured Or Ill Migrants, Lori A. Nessel
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The practice of medical repatriation, or the extrajudicial deportation of seriously ill immigrants directly by hospitals, was largely unknown and under-theorized until recently. In the past few years, a number of scholars have focused on the legal and ethical issues raised by this practice. However, medical repatriation has most often been analyzed in isolation as an example of an anomalous unlawful or unethical action undertaken by hospitals, rather than as a predictable, if horrifying, extension of a legal regime that treats migrant labor as disposable. In contrast, this Article contextualizes the private deportation of migrant workers by hospitals within broader …
Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins Of Ideological Deportation And The Suppression Of Expression, Julia Rose Kraut
Global Anti-Anarchism: The Origins Of Ideological Deportation And The Suppression Of Expression, Julia Rose Kraut
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
On September 6, 1901, a self-proclaimed anarchist named Leon Czolgosz fatally shot President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. This paper places the suppression of anarchists and the exclusion and deportation of foreigners in the aftermath of the "shot that shocked the world" within the context of international anti-anarchist efforts, and reveals that President McKinley's assassination successfully pulled the United States into an existing global conversation over how to combat anarchist violence. This paper argues that these anti-anarchist restrictions and the suppression of expression led to the emergence of a "free speech consciousness" among anarchists, and …
American-Arab -- Getting The Balance Wrong -- Again!, John A. Scanlan
American-Arab -- Getting The Balance Wrong -- Again!, John A. Scanlan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Unreviewable Discretionary Justice: The New Extreme Hardship In Cancellation Of Deportation Cases, William C.B. Underwood
Unreviewable Discretionary Justice: The New Extreme Hardship In Cancellation Of Deportation Cases, William C.B. Underwood
Indiana Law Journal
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Preserving Family Unity: The Rights Of Children To Maintain The Companionship Of Their Parents And Remain In Their Country Of Birth, Giovanna I. Wolf
Preserving Family Unity: The Rights Of Children To Maintain The Companionship Of Their Parents And Remain In Their Country Of Birth, Giovanna I. Wolf
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
No abstract provided.
Asylum Adjudication: Some Due Process Implications Of Proposed Immigration Legislation, John A. Scanlan
Asylum Adjudication: Some Due Process Implications Of Proposed Immigration Legislation, John A. Scanlan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Regulating Refugee Flow: Legal Alternatives And Obligations Under The Refugee Act Of 1980, John Scanlan
Regulating Refugee Flow: Legal Alternatives And Obligations Under The Refugee Act Of 1980, John Scanlan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.