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The Faculty Lounge
The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, Part Three — Immigration and Indictment
Part Three of the Volokh Conspiracy series on The Trials of Rasmea Odeh was posted today. Part One is here; Part Two is here.
Immigration Lawyers Blog
U.S. Attorney Announces Two Men Sentenced for Participation in CW-1 Visa Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands recently announced multiple sentences arising out of a scheme to willfully abuse the CW-1 Visa Program for…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Foreign Defendants Have No Due Process Right to Personally Attend a Civil Forfeiture Hearing, Holds Eleventh Circuit
In USA v. Approximately $281,110.00, No. 20-11107 (11th Cir. Oct. 13, 2021), the Eleventh Circuit affirms a civil forfeiture verdict where the jury rejected an innocent-owner defense for Chinese nationals…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Crimmigration Real-o-thetical
Real-o-thetical: Noun. An in-class "hypothetical" based, at least in part, on real events.The travails of Michele Thiesen would make an outstanding Crimmigration Real-o-thetical. Here are the facts:Thiesen is a Canadian…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Unpacking the Rise in Crimmigration Cases at the Supreme Court by Philip Torrey
Unpacking the Rise in Crimmigration Cases at the Supreme Court by Philip Torrey, New York University Review of Law & Social Change, The HarbingerAbstractWhy has the Supreme Court recently granted…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. District Court: “Section 1326 disparately impacts Latinx people and . . . the statute was motivated, at least in part, by discriminatory intent”
Criminal immigration prosecutions comprise a large chunk of the caseload of the federal courts. As stated by the National Immigrant Justice center in its report Lgacy of Injustice: The U.S.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Crimmigration Law by Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, Second Edition
The second edition of Crimmigration Law by Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez is now available. Here is the publisher's description:"At its most basic, `crimmigration' law describes the convergence of two distinct bodies…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Criminalizing Migration"
The title of this post is the title of this notable short paper now available via SSRN authored by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández. Here is its abstract: Beginning in the…
Criminal
“Criminalizing Migration”
The title of this post is the title of this notable short paper now available via SSRN authored by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández. Here is its abstract:Beginning in the 1980s,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Corporate Crimmigration?
Crimmigration law is a body of law dealing generally with the removal of noncitizens for criminal offenses and criminal prosecutions of noncitizens for illegal re-entry into the United States. Brandon…