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Federal Regulation of Aliens and the Constitution
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In two cases decided in the afterglow of the centennial of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court said nearly everything the modern lawyer needs to know about the source and extent of Congress's power to regulate immigration.Abstract:
In two cases decided in the afterglow of the centennial of the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court said nearly everything the modern lawyer needs to know about the source and extent of Congress’s power to regulate immigration. The cases sustained the constitutionality of the first significant congressional restrictions on immigration—the shameful Chinese exclusion laws. Constitutional analysis of the immigration power has yet to shed the original sins of the Court’s ratification of Congress’s ignominious legislation.read more
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The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the rise and fall of a right to asylum in liberal democratic states and ethically defensible asylum practices in terms of partiality, community, citizenship and the defence of closure.
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The grassroots reconfiguration of U.S. immigration policy
TL;DR: Despite the increasing constriction of immigrants' rights at the federal level, local responses have been much more varied, countering, compensating for, and even transforming policies originating from....
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E Pluribus Unum?: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation
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Immigrants Facing Immigration Policy: State Laws Regulating Eligibility For In-State Tuition And Belonging Among Immigrant Youth In The United States
TL;DR: This paper studied the role of politique publique associee a la reforme de l'immigration in the region of New York and du New Jersey, and found that the politiques who ouvrent ou ferment l'acces de ces immigres aux frais d'inscription a l'universite appliques aux residents of l'Etat sont associes a differents niveaux d'appartenance and a different styles d'organisations politiques.