Litigating Immigration Cases in Federal Court
Author : Robert Pauw
Publisher :
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : 9781573704649
Author : Robert Pauw
Publisher :
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : 9781573704649
Author : Randy P. Auerbach
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Randy P. Auerbach
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : 9781573701327
Author : Charles H. Kuck
Publisher :
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : 9781573701839
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Ira J. Kurzban
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN :
Author : Rehka Sharma Crawford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
Author : Leila Kawar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316299503
What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the US and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically voluminous - remains doctrinally curtailed. This study offers new insights into the constitutive role of law in immigration policymaking by focusing on the legal frames, narratives, and performances forged through action in court. Challenging the conventional wisdom that 'cause litigation' has little long-term impact on policymaking unless it produces broad rights-protective principles, this book shows that legal contestation can have important radiating effects on policy by reshaping how political actors approach immigration issues. Based on extensive fieldwork in the United States and France, this book explores the paths by which litigation has effected policy change in two paradigmatically different national contexts.
Author : Maureen O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Deportation
ISBN : 9781878677501
Author : Laura Owen Beckman
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN :
In recent decades, the United States has experienced a wave of immigration, an economic recession, and several terroristic attacks. In response, the government has scapegoated and blamed undocumented immigrants of color for recent social ills. As a result, a large share of government resources has been allocated to the enforcement and processing of immigration violations. Consequently, the number of immigration cases processed in U.S. federal courts has spiraled to nearly 50% of bookings and 34% of federal sentencing cases. Yet, immigration offenses have received little empirical attention in the courts and sentencing literature due in part to differences in the way immigration offenses are processed compared to other federal offense types, and relatedly, the empirical difficulties immigration offenses pose for analysis. Nevertheless, the increased representation of immigration offenses in federal courts, along with the punitive rhetoric and heightened social control targeting undocumented immigrants of color, warrants a comprehensive assessment of how immigration cases are processed in U.S. federal courts. Accordingly, this dissertation seeks to identify inequality in the processing of immigration cases by examining: 1) cumulative disadvantage within immigration cases; 2) contextual disparity and how social context interacts with ethnicity to influence multiple federal court outcomes within immigration cases; and 3) ethnic disparity within immigration cases over time. Data come from the Federal Justice Statistics Program Data Series, the U.S. Census, the Uniform Crime Reports, Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, the National Judicial Center, and the U.S. Department of Justice. The quantitative analysis addresses the first question by employing a cumulative disadvantage approach where multiple decision points are considered and the effects of prior stages on subsequent outcomes. The quantitative analysis proceeds to address the second question by using multilevel modeling for multiple court outcomes. The longitudinal analysis is separately conducted on sentence length for 18-year data, from 1994 through 2012, to assess racial and ethnic disparity over time.The results indicate that cumulative disadvantage is present within immigration cases, that social context influences certain decision points, and that ethnic disparity has diminished over time in some districts.