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Building A Common Frontier Or Deconstructing National Identity?: An Analysis Of The Effort To Centralize Control Of Third Country Immigration In The European Union, Catherine E. Halliday-Roberts

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Faraway from the frightening attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a wall next to a mosque in Northern England reads, "Avenge USA - kill a Muslim now."

Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune: The Deportation Of "Aggravated Felons", Valerie Neal

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Any foreign national who is convicted of an "aggravated felony," as that term is defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act, is subject to deportation from the United States. Deportation of so-called "aggravated felons" is in no way contingent upon the particular facts and circumstances in a given case. More troublingly, on the judiciary has no authority to review a deportation order based "aggravated felony" grounds. In the past decade, Congress has expanded the definition of "aggravated felony" to encompass many minor crimes that are neither aggravated nor felonious.

The deportation of foreign nationals on "aggravated felony" grounds is effectively …