Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "immigration law"

Now showing items 1-9 of 9

    • The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants 
      McKanders, Karla Mari (University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 2009)
      Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
    • Federal Preemption and Immigrants' Rights 
      McKanders, Karla Mari (Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 2013)
      Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion of civil rights issues. States and localities assert that they should ...
    • Immigration and Blackness 
      McKanders, Karla (Human Rights, 2019)
      There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws ...
    • Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts 
      McKanders, Karla Mari (Catholic University Law Review, 2012)
      Two seemingly different federal enforcement systems that affect the movement of unskilled workers — the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts and current state immigration enforcement policies — have remarkable similarities. ...
    • Raising the Bar 
      McKanders, Karla Mari; Aldana, Raquel; Lyon, Beth (Arizona State Law Journal, 2012)
      This paper explores the adoption of best practices for the admission and graduation of undocumented students as lawyers and promoting their integration into the legal profession. Law schools are already both knowingly and ...
    • Refugee Reception and Perception 
      McKanders, Karla Mari; Gomez, Valeria (Fordham International Law Journal, 2017)
      The reception of refugees and asylum seekers has emerged as one of the most critical contemporary global issues. In 2015, the world experienced the most forced migrants since World War II. This essay compares the treatment ...
    • The Supreme Court and Refugees at the Southern Border 
      McKanders, Karla (Conversation, 2019)
      I sat in a small room in Tijuana, Mexico with a 13-year-old indigenous Mayan Guatemalan girl. She left Guatemala after a cartel murdered her friend and threatened to rape her. Her mother wanted her to live and believed ...
    • Sustaining Tiered Personhood 
      McKanders, Karla Mari (Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, 2010)
      Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
    • Unforgiving of Those Who Trespass against U.S. 
      McKanders, Karla Mari (Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, 2011)
      Since around 2005, states and localities have been using criminal trespass laws to target undocumented immigrants for unlawful presence. Specifically, in April 2010, Arizona passed SB 1070: Support Our Law Enforcement and ...