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Achieving The Dream: Extending Immigration Reform To Administrative Case Closure, Tory E. Smith
Achieving The Dream: Extending Immigration Reform To Administrative Case Closure, Tory E. Smith
San Diego Law Review
This Comment compares DACA to administrative case closure and argues that Congress or the President should grant employment authorization to individuals whose cases have been administratively closed. Part I describes the current interpretation of the employment authorization regulation and provides the background of administrative case closure. Part I highlights the disparate treatment that the regulation affords to undocumented immigrants facing deferred action and administrative closure—offering employment authorization to only deferred action recipients. Part II examines the history of deferred action in immigration cases and uses DACA as a framework to show how the scope of the employment authorization regulation should …
The Deferred Action Program Of The Bureau Of Citizenship And Immigration Services: A Possible Remedy For Impossible Immigration Cases
San Diego Law Review
This beneficent operations instruction permitted two alternative interpretations, each of which was taken up by the federal courts. In the case of Nicholas v. INS, the petitioner asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overrule the district director’s decision to deny his nonpriority status application. The court determined that the operations instruction confers a “substantive benefit upon the alien, rather than setting up an administrative convenience,”and thus is essentially a legislative rule requiring a strict standard of application, and not one allowing the INS a significant amount of discretion. The Fifth Circuit held in Soon Bok Yoon v. INS …
An Immigration Policy For A Just Society?, Louis Henkin
An Immigration Policy For A Just Society?, Louis Henkin
San Diego Law Review
If it is a human right for every human being to choose where he or she would live, do not considerations of justice require a society to hold out its hand to such a contract? This Article explores the concept of justice, as it applies to immigration law in the United States. It examines the notion that the United States may have an obligation to accept people into the country based on considerations of justice. The author suggests that justice ought to imbue the immigration policy of the United States, and that policy would be different if justice was recognized …
By Hook Or By Cook: Exploring The Legality Of An Ins Sting Operation, Lenni B. Benson
By Hook Or By Cook: Exploring The Legality Of An Ins Sting Operation, Lenni B. Benson
San Diego Law Review
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is an agency with responsibility both for enforcing the immigration laws and conferring legal status and other benefits. This author finds that at times these dual roles create conflict, mistrust in the community, and violations of the rights of aliens. This Article critically examines an undercover operation conducted in 1993 by the San Diego District Office, which lured aliens to deportation through INS offers of legal status. The Article discusses the regulatory and statutory provisions governing INS undercover operations and the rights of aliens subject to final orders of deportation. It continues with an …
Population, Immigration And Growth In California, Richard Sybert
Population, Immigration And Growth In California, Richard Sybert
San Diego Law Review
This Article presents objective data and analysis regarding the components of California's population growth. It also reviews fiscal impacts from immigration. The author finds that these fiscal impacts are substantially negative for state and local governments. The Article also examines United States workforce needs as they may be affected by an expanding population and as they may implicate immigration. The author recommends changing immigration policy to focus more on workforce needs and skills in California. He recommends federal action on two levels: (1) to compensate California for the hugely disproportionate financial burden it bears from the nation's immigration and refugee …
Entry: What Mama Never Told You About Being There, Kathrin S. Mautino
Entry: What Mama Never Told You About Being There, Kathrin S. Mautino
San Diego Law Review
This Article analyzes the development of entry as an immigration concept, with special attention to those factors that affect entry analysis. These elements that the author finds must be considered in every potential entry into the United States are: (1) the legal status of the alien, (2) the purpose for finding an entry, and (3) the congressional intent behind the statutes involved. This Article explores the legal history of the term "entry," and illustrates the interaction of the three factors above. The author concludes that entry analysis demonstrates the political nature of immigration and the frequency that historical events rather …
Safe Haven For Salvadorans In The Context Of Contemporary International Law--A Case Study In Equivocation, Todd Howland, Amy Beer, Tim Everett, Evangeline Nichols Ordaz
Safe Haven For Salvadorans In The Context Of Contemporary International Law--A Case Study In Equivocation, Todd Howland, Amy Beer, Tim Everett, Evangeline Nichols Ordaz
San Diego Law Review
This Article analyzes the basis for safe-haven programs for refugees fleeing war and civil strife under contemporary principles of international law. The authors trace the development of safe-haven programs in the United States and offer an analysis and critique of the Temporary Protected Status program created by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990. Focusing on the struggle to gain safe haven for refugees from El Salvador, the authors review the United States government's historical use of safe haven programs as a political tool. Finally, the Article looks at how other countries have responded to refugee crises and suggests a …