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Full-Text Articles in Immigration Law
Family Matters: Granting Legal Status To Non-Abusive Parents Under Sijs, Ava Hansen
Family Matters: Granting Legal Status To Non-Abusive Parents Under Sijs, Ava Hansen
Brooklyn Law Review
Immigration and family are central to American society, with family reunification long recognized as a core principle of United States immigration policy. Family-based preference visas reflect this priority. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) provides a pathway to lawful permanent resident status for immigrant children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned by one or both parents. However, individuals who obtain legal status through SIJS are permanently barred from petitioning on behalf of their natural or prior adoptive parent. This restriction applies to children’s non-abusive custodial parents and leaves children who have obtained SIJS vulnerable to having that parent deported due …
Disability Restriction In U.S. Immigration Policy: From 1882 To The “Final Rule”, Jess Whatcott Dr.
Disability Restriction In U.S. Immigration Policy: From 1882 To The “Final Rule”, Jess Whatcott Dr.
Journal of Law and Policy
Disability justice in the United States and globally demands the dismantling of exclusionary immigration policies. This article surveys the development of disability restrictions in U.S. immigration policy and draws on historical scholarship to describe the specific impact of these policies on racialized groups in the U.S. Since 1882, federal immigration policies have excluded people from entering the U.S. legally based on perceived bodily difference, impairment, pathology, mental defect, or proneness to contagious disease. This continued into the twenty-first century through restrictions on people with HIV/AIDS and against people with a “likelihood of becoming a public charge,” reinforced by the Trump …
Incomplete Protection: How Sijs Perpetuates Family Separation And Restricts Rights Of Immigrant Youth, Lillian Schmoker
Incomplete Protection: How Sijs Perpetuates Family Separation And Restricts Rights Of Immigrant Youth, Lillian Schmoker
Journal of Law and Policy
In 1990, Congress enacted the Immigration Act, amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide qualifying young immigrants with a pathway to residency and citizenship. Through the new Act, Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”) to protect immigrant children in a similar way as the domestic foster care system protected U.S. citizen children. An immigrant child may qualify for SIJS if they are under the age of twenty-one, unmarried, and cannot be reunified with one or both of their parents due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Many SIJS cases involve a claim of harm against only one parent, with …
Questioning Us Immigration Law Compliance With Treaties For Trade And Investment, William Thomas Worster
Questioning Us Immigration Law Compliance With Treaties For Trade And Investment, William Thomas Worster
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
This Article examines the extent to which US immigration law complies with the United States’ treaty obligations to admit qualifying foreign nationals as treaty traders (E-1) or treaty investors (E-2). These immigration categories are grounded in international agreements—specifically Friendship, Commerce and Navigation treaties (FCNs), Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)—that commit the United States to grant entry to certain foreign individuals and enterprises for the purposes of trade or investment. Although each treaty includes specifically tailored terms and conditions, US immigration regulations apply a single, harmonized set of regulations that often diverge from the treaty texts. This …
Visa To Stay: Immigration Reform For International Students In The United States: From Contractual Limits To Affiliation-Based Opportunities, Jeanette Subkhanberdina
Visa To Stay: Immigration Reform For International Students In The United States: From Contractual Limits To Affiliation-Based Opportunities, Jeanette Subkhanberdina
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
International student mobility is a vehicle of globalization in today’s world, with a significant rise in students pursuing higher education abroad over the past two decades, reaching approximately 6.9 million globally. Regardless of personal motivations, the decision to study abroad rests in a careful evaluation of whether long-term rewards outweigh the short-term sacrifices these students make. For students looking to build a professional foundation and immerse themselves in the culture of the country in which they study, few long-term rewards are more appealing than having their student visas serve as a pathway to permanent residency. Determining who may be granted …
Funding Repression: How The Eu Migration Agreements With Libya And Tunisia Circumvent Non-Refoulement And Enable Human Rights Violations, Emma Soltis
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
In 2023, the European Union and Tunisia entered into a Memorandum of Understanding, which outlined cooperation between the parties on several issues, including migration and mobility. Consistent with the European Union’s broader externalization agenda, the Memorandum of Understanding primarily allocates monetary and technical support to Tunisia and its authorities for migration management. In particular, Tunisian authorities are enabled to patrol the coast and intercept migrants and refugees attempting to irregularly migrate from North Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. The European Union sponsored a similar Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Libya in 2017. Critics have widely denounced the …
Closing Down Access To Asylum: The Illegal Migration Act’S Incompatibility With International Refugee Law, Alexandra Mallory
Closing Down Access To Asylum: The Illegal Migration Act’S Incompatibility With International Refugee Law, Alexandra Mallory
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
In 2023, the United Kingdom enacted the Illegal Migration Act, implemented to deter individuals from seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. The Illegal Migration Act places a duty on the Secretary of State is to remove all persons who meet certain criteria regardless of whether they make a protection, human rights, slavery, or human trafficking claims. The Act provides a list of countries — Schedule 1 — which it declares to be safe and thus, obliges the Secretary to remove such nationals to their country of origin without consideration of their claim on the merits. This procedural mechanism increases the …
Essentializing Cultures In Us Asylum Law, Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, Estelle Mckee
Essentializing Cultures In Us Asylum Law, Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, Estelle Mckee
Brooklyn Law Review
Asylum applicants must tell a story about their home country that reduces and problematizes its culture. The requirements of asylum law demand that an applicant show why they will suffer persecution in their home country and that their government will not protect them from it. This legal framework prompts applicants to present a narrative in which their home culture plays the role of the ultimate antagonist, the force that propels the applicant’s persecutors to single them out for harm and renders their government passive—or even complicit—in the face of it. Such a narrative necessarily reduces the applicant’s culture to its …
Temporary Protection For Ukrainians In The European Union: Why Now And When Again, Maryellen Fullerton
Temporary Protection For Ukrainians In The European Union: Why Now And When Again, Maryellen Fullerton
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Order Of Protection Or Deportation? How Civil Orders Of Protection Entangle Noncitizens And Their Families In The Immigration And Criminal Legal Systems, Creating The Harm That They Were Intended To Prevent., Sarah E. Corsico
Brooklyn Law Review
A civil protection order can act as an important form of relief for an individual experiencing violence; however, it can also bring extreme complications and consequences for noncitizens. Unlike its intended purpose as a remedy separate from punitive state systems, civil protection orders can replicate the harm of the criminal legal system for noncitizens—barring someone from gaining immigration status, delaying applications, impacting international travel, and at its worst, resulting in deportation. Despite the high stakes nature of these proceeding, for the most part, there is no right to assigned counsel in civil protection order cases. As a result, many individuals …
Gang Accusations: The Beast That Burdens Noncitizens, Mary Holper
Gang Accusations: The Beast That Burdens Noncitizens, Mary Holper
Brooklyn Law Review
This article examines evidence that the government presents in deportation proceedings against young men of color to prove that they are gang members. The gang evidence results in detention, deportation, adverse credibility decisions, and denial of discretionary relief. This article examines the gang evidence through the lens of the law’s use of presumptions and the corresponding burdens of proof at play in immigration proceedings. The immigration burden allocations allow adjudicators to readily accept the harmful presumption contained in the gang evidence—that urban youth of color are criminals and likely to engage in violent crime associated with gangs. The article seeks …
Citizenship Outside The Courts, Catherine Y. Kim
Citizenship Outside The Courts, Catherine Y. Kim
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
An Unreasonable Presumption: The National Security/Foreign Affairs Nexus In Immigration Law, Anthony J. Demattee, Matthew J. Lindsay, Hallie Ludsin
An Unreasonable Presumption: The National Security/Foreign Affairs Nexus In Immigration Law, Anthony J. Demattee, Matthew J. Lindsay, Hallie Ludsin
Brooklyn Law Review
For well over a century, immigration has occupied a constitutionally unique niche within US public law. Noncitizens in immigration proceedings are routinely denied constitutional guarantees, including due process and equal protection, that apply in virtually every other legal setting. Courts justify their extraordinary deference to the government by invoking a presumptive nexus between immigration, on the one hand, and national security and foreign affairs, on the other. Critically, courts cite the national security/foreign affairs nexus regardless of whether the specific regulation or enforcement action under review has any plausible bearing on those interests. This article is the first to demonstrate …
The Immigration Shadow Docket, Faiza Sayed
A Civil Shame: The Failure To Protect Due Process In Discretionary Immigration Bond Hearings, Stacy L. Brustin
A Civil Shame: The Failure To Protect Due Process In Discretionary Immigration Bond Hearings, Stacy L. Brustin
Brooklyn Law Review
Over the last four years, the US Supreme Court has granted certiorari in four immigration bond review cases. The sheer number of cases the Court has recently considered underscores the significance of this area of immigration law. Each case centers on whether the Immigration and Nationality Act or the Constitution mandates a bond review hearing after prolonged detention. Yet these cases leave unresolved the issue of whether initial bond hearings themselves meet the due process threshold required of civil confinement proceedings. Federal circuit and district courts have addressed aspects of this question and found procedural due process violations. However, most …
The Cost Of Cutting Corners: Jurisdictional Implications Flowing From Removal Proceedings Commenced By A Defective Notice To Appear, Juliana M. Lopez
The Cost Of Cutting Corners: Jurisdictional Implications Flowing From Removal Proceedings Commenced By A Defective Notice To Appear, Juliana M. Lopez
Brooklyn Law Review
A Notice to Appear (NTA) in removal proceedings is a written notice served on noncitizens that, among other things, alerts them that they must appear in immigration court for a hearing. In 2018, contrary to statute and common sense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admitted to issuing almost all NTAs without the accurate date, time, and place of the initial proceeding. In response, the Supreme Court, in Pereira v. Sessions, clarified that an NTA without the date and place of the hearing is statutorily defective and cannot be used to bar noncitizens from cancellation of removal. However, DHS circumvented …
Protecting The ‘Unwanted’: How And Why We Should Defend Former Gang Members In Their Pursuit Of Asylum, Anjani P. Shah
Protecting The ‘Unwanted’: How And Why We Should Defend Former Gang Members In Their Pursuit Of Asylum, Anjani P. Shah
Journal of Law and Policy
This Note discusses the flaws in the tripartite analysis to determine whether an asylum seeker satisfies the protected ground of “membership in a ‘particular social group’” (“PSG”). An applicant seeking a PSG determination must prove: (1) “immutability,” (2) “social distinction,” and (3) “particularity.” This Note argues that when PSG asylum claims are denied and appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), the BIA has incoherently tangled what is actually required in order to compel an affirmative PSG determination. One group of asylum seekers that has been significantly disadvantaged by this tripartite test is former gang members. This Note argues …
Ice Transfers And The Detention Archipelago, Sabrina Balgamwalla
Ice Transfers And The Detention Archipelago, Sabrina Balgamwalla
Journal of Law and Policy
This article examines transfers as an understudied but critical dimension of the immigration detention system. Transfers regularly take detainees in immigration custody from public to private facilities, across state lines, and beyond the jurisdiction of individual courts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) has virtually unlimited authority to use transfers strategically to further agency goals of immigration enforcement. For individual detainees, transfers shape outcomes in their immigration cases. Noncitizens are regularly funneled into detention centers in legal jurisdictions generally hostile to claims for relief. Transfers also regularly send detainees to facilities in isolated, rural communities, where they are more likely to …
A Lineage Of Family Separation, Anita Sinha
A Lineage Of Family Separation, Anita Sinha
Brooklyn Law Review
Family separation is a practice rooted in US history. In order to comprehensively examine the most recent execution of separating children from their parents under the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, we need to follow and understand this history. That is what this Article does. Examining the separation histories of enslaved, Indigenous, and immigrant families, it offers critical context of a reoccurring practice that has had devastating effects largely on communities of color, and across generations. By contextualizing the separation of migrant families crossing the US-Mexico border under zero tolerance, this Article identifies narratives that consistently rely on xenophobia and …
Rights Retrenchment In Immigration Law, Catherine Y. Kim
Rights Retrenchment In Immigration Law, Catherine Y. Kim
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Sinking Immigration Court: Change Course, Sink The Ship, Stacy Caplow
The Sinking Immigration Court: Change Course, Sink The Ship, Stacy Caplow
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Redefining The Safe Third Country Exception Of The Immigration And Nationality Act In The Wake Of Trump, Daniel E. Rabbani
Redefining The Safe Third Country Exception Of The Immigration And Nationality Act In The Wake Of Trump, Daniel E. Rabbani
Brooklyn Law Review
The U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act lays out when an asylum seeker has the right to apply for asylum in the United States. This right is not available, however, when an asylum seeker passes through a designated Safe Third Country. A Safe Third Country is an internationally used concept that, pursuant to an international agreement, requires refugees to seek asylum in the first safe country that they step foot in. As the Safe Third Country exception on the Immigration and Nationality Act stands now, there are no guidelines on how to evaluate whether a country is in fact safe. This …
Without A Voice, Without A Forum: Finding Iirira Section 1252(G) Unconstitutional, Amanda Simms
Without A Voice, Without A Forum: Finding Iirira Section 1252(G) Unconstitutional, Amanda Simms
Brooklyn Law Review
The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) abrogates sovereign immunity in certain circumstances to allow private individuals, regardless of citizenship, to sue the United States for specific torts committed by government officials. Yet when two lawful permanent residents—located in different parts of the country—separately tried to sue the government for wrongful removal, one court dismissed the suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction while the other court did not. These decisions, though reaching opposite conclusions, both relied on federal immigration statute 8 U.S.C. § 1252(g) in order to determine whether judicial review of immigrants’ removal orders is precluded. This note argues …
Terrorism And The Inherent Right To Self-Defense In Immigration Law, Faiza Sayed
Terrorism And The Inherent Right To Self-Defense In Immigration Law, Faiza Sayed
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Presidential Ideology And Immigrant Detention, Catherine Y. Kim, Amy Semet
Presidential Ideology And Immigrant Detention, Catherine Y. Kim, Amy Semet
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Asymmetries In Immigration Protection, Sabrineh Ardalan
Asymmetries In Immigration Protection, Sabrineh Ardalan
Brooklyn Law Review
As increasing numbers of immigrants face deportation, a major asymmetry in existing immigration procedures requires attention. Individuals who are deported from the United States and attempt to reenter are afforded an opportunity to prove their fears of return to their home countries, whereas those with prior deportation orders who have remained in the United States are not. This difference is based on the false premise that the latter have already had their day in court and do not need an additional layer of screening. This article fills a critical gap in the existing scholarship, which has thus far failed to …
Out Of Options: The Obstructions Hindering Victims Of Non-State Actor Violence Under Current Asylum Law, Kenneth D. Law Jr.
Out Of Options: The Obstructions Hindering Victims Of Non-State Actor Violence Under Current Asylum Law, Kenneth D. Law Jr.
Brooklyn Law Review
Each year tens of thousands of immigrants head to the United States’ shores in the hope of achieving their version of the “American Dream.” This dream is now more elusive than it has ever been due to the Trump Administration’s attempts to limit legal migration by, to an extent, removing certain avenues of entry. Specifically, the Trump Administration severely hindered the ability of victims of domestic and gang violence to apply for one of the few forms of relief afforded to them: asylum. This note analyzes how decisions such as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ opinion in Matter of A-B- …
An Empirical Study Of Political Control Over Immigration Adjudication, Catherine Y. Kim, Amy Semet
An Empirical Study Of Political Control Over Immigration Adjudication, Catherine Y. Kim, Amy Semet
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Coming To Terms With Wartime Collaboration: Post-Conflict Processes & Legal Challenges, Shane Darcy
Coming To Terms With Wartime Collaboration: Post-Conflict Processes & Legal Challenges, Shane Darcy
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
The phenomenon of collaboration during wartime is as old as war itself. During situations of armed conflict, civilians or combatants belonging to one party to the conflict frequently provide assistance to the opposing side in various ways, such as by disclosing valuable information, defecting and fighting for the enemy, engaging in propaganda, or providing administrative support to an occupying power. Such acts of collaboration have been punished harshly, with violent retribution often directed at alleged collaborators during armed conflict, while states and at times non-state actors have prosecuted and punished collaboration as treason or related offenses in times of war. …
Safeguarding Democracy In Europe: A Bulwark Against Hungary’S Subversion Of Civil Society, Hannah J. Sarokin
Safeguarding Democracy In Europe: A Bulwark Against Hungary’S Subversion Of Civil Society, Hannah J. Sarokin
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Spurred in large part by a mounting humanitarian crisis in Syria, the 2015 migrant crisis exposed deeply rooted fractures within the European Union regarding refugee resettlement. While the European Union worked to develop a synchronized response to the influx of refugees and asylees, Hungary defiantly sought to close its borders. In doing so, the Hungarian government targeted not only those seeking refuge, but its own civil society. In a series of opaque and overtly punitive legislative acts passed in the summer of 2018, Hungary criminalized any civil society activities that facilitate or assist with immigration. This Note will analyze the …