Feb
12
Day to Oppose the Use of Child Soldiers
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Today, February 12, marks the eighth anniversary of the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. As IntLawGrrls points out, the U.S. is a party to the protocol (even though it remains one of the only two countries in [...]
Jan
25
English-Only Rule Comes to a Yale-Area Bookstore
Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
From the New York Times: A popular bookstore and cafe near Yale University wants its many Hispanic employees to speak only English around customers, sparking controversy in immigrant-friendly New Haven, where students fight for immigrant rights. Atticus Bookstore and Cafe recently issued a policy stating that English should be the only language spoken on the [...]
Oct
29
Truth and Reconciliation, Stories from the Diaspora
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Several months ago I blogged about the situation of Liberians who fled their country for the United States (but who did not receive official status as refugees) and who have lived here for years in a “temporary” status, while it remained unsafe to return to Liberia. As I explained in those posts, these US residents face [...]
Oct
18
Who Are Our People?
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | October 18, 2009 | 17 Comments
You may have heard that the Del Rio, Texas school district is policing a bridge that crosses the border with Mexico. Children crossing the bridge to attend school in the morning have been given letters seeking verification of their residency and explaining that non-residents will be expelled. When you live in walking distance from the US-Mexico border, [...]
Jun
17
Immigration Enforcement at the Worksite
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Our recent graduate Ben Crouse has a fascinating new paper on SSRN entitled “Worksite Raids and Immigration Norms: A ‘Sticky’ Problem.” Drawing on Dan Kahan’s theory of social norms, Ben critiques the government’s use of high-profile worksite raids as a tactic to deter employers from hiring illegal immigrants. Here is a taste: The government’s high-profile raids may encourage an [...]
Apr
22
Supreme Court Determines That Traditional Stay Continues to Be Available to Aliens Appealing from Removal Orders
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As I blogged about previously, in January the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Nken v. Holder, which raised the question of whether the 1996 amendments to judicial review provisions that removed the automatic stay of deportation pending appeal had replaced the automatic stay with a traditional stay standard or [...]
Apr
15
Brave Afghani Women Protest Law Change
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Did you see this article in the New York Times this morning, about the 300 women protesting a new law that would give men in the Shiite minority community virtually complete control over the lives of their wives? The NYT describes the law this way: The law, approved by both houses of Parliament and signed by President Hamid [...]
Mar
20
Obama Extends Protected Status for Liberians for Twelve More Months
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The AP reports that President Obama has issued an executive order extended protection (“deferred enforced departure”) for twelve more months. Advocates for the extension are pleased. As I wrote previously, I also support this extension, but for the reasons explained in that longer post, I hope that during this twelve months, some legislative solution can [...]
Feb
21
Failures of Refugee Law and the Inhumane Prospect of Deporting Settled Liberians from the United States
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | February 21, 2009 | 8 Comments
This semester I am teaching a seminar entitled Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law, and last week, one of my students in that course, Vintee Sawnhey, sent me a link to a news article about the thousands of Liberians who fear deportation from the United States because the “deferred enforced departure” status that President Bush extended to them in [...]
Feb
7
Seventh Circuit Week in Review: Cloak and Dagger
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Seventh Circuit had only one new opinion in a criminal case last week: United States v. Latchin (Nos. 07-4009 & 08-1085). Latchin emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the early 1990′s and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1998. However, documents seized by American forces in Baghdad in 2003 revealed that Latchin [...]
Jan
22
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Nken v. Filip, on Question of Standard of Review for Stays of Removal Pending Appeal
Posted by: Jessica E. Slavin | January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard the argument in Nken v. Filip (formerly Nken v. Mukasey), which asks whether an alien who seeks a stay of deportation pending appeal must prove by clear and convincing evidence that his deportation is prohibited by law. The majority of courts have held that the ordinary standard for stays pending appeal [...]
Jan
18
Seventh Circuit Week in Review, Part II: Piling on the Mandatory Minimums
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In addition to the two cases covered in my prior post, the Seventh Circuit had four new sentencing opinions last week. Only one warrants any extended discussion. And that case, United States v. Easter (Nos. 07-2433, 2435, 3118, 3203, 3540 & 3628), actually presented several different issues raised by multiple defendants. In Easter, several codefendants appealed [...]
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