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An Immigration Innovation: A Comparative Analysis Of The American Diversity Visa Lottery Program And The Canadian Points-Based System, Jennifer Hopkins
An Immigration Innovation: A Comparative Analysis Of The American Diversity Visa Lottery Program And The Canadian Points-Based System, Jennifer Hopkins
St. John's Law Review
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United States immigration policy has historically been a strategy for national growth. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990 to stimulate further growth by increasing immigration opportunities. This substantial immigration reform created the Diversity Visa (“DV”) lottery program, which administers 50,000 lawful permanent residence visas annually. These visas are drawn randomly from a pool of applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
Donald J. Trump pushed for major immigration reform beginning on his first day in office, including the repeal of the DV program and the development of a points-based system modeling the current …
Nazi Germany's Race Laws, The United States, And American Indians, Robert J. Miller
Nazi Germany's Race Laws, The United States, And American Indians, Robert J. Miller
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
Most Americans would be shocked to learn that in the 1920s and 1930s Adolf Hitler and Nazi scholars, lawyers, and officials were studying United States law while developing Germany’s policies and laws concerning Jews and the conquest of Eastern Europe. Most Americans would also be surprised that, as the leaders of the Third Reich were turning racist ideas into official German policies, Nazis were carefully studying United States federal Indian law and state laws that discriminated against Indian nations and American Indians.
Special Education No Man's Land, Adrián E. Alvarez
Special Education No Man's Land, Adrián E. Alvarez
St. John's Law Review
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Since 2014, unaccompanied immigrant children have migrated to the United States in staggering numbers. The vast majority come from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—and many are fleeing some of the highest homicide rates in the world. Immigration lawyers have highlighted many problems with the federal regime that cares for these children before they are released to family members or other adults living in the United States while their immigration cases move forward. Yet there is one group of unaccompanied minors that is not even on the radar of many advocates: unaccompanied children with …