Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are removed from the United States each year because they have been convicted of criminal offenses, many quite minor. These removals occur without any of the constitutional safeguards that generally protect criminal defendants. Immigration authorities rely on cases asserting that such removals are not punishment for crime, but rather remedial sanctions and merely collateral consequences of conviction. This Article challenges those conclusions. It argues that their factual and doctrinal foundation has disintegrated over the last twenty years. Far reaching changes in immigration law and enforcement have rendered removal for many crimes a definite, immediate and largely automatic effect on the r...
In this article, we argue that there is a form of double punishment unique to the immigration court ...
This article seeks to reconcile the apparent disparate treatment of downward departures under the Un...
The nation prides itself on the notion of rebirth—the ideal that one can leave their past behind, co...
Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are deported from the United States each year becau...
Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are removed from the United States each year becaus...
The belief that immigrants are crossing the border, in the stealth of night, with nefarious desires ...
In this Article, Professor Francis argues that non-citizen criminal defendants should be afforded gr...
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court held that defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment du...
Prosecutorial discretion is a critical part of the administration of immigration law. This Article c...
The rise of immigration prosecution as the central feature of the federal criminal justice system ch...
Immigration law is in need of relief. Among the many problems affecting immigration law is the lack ...
This article analyses the recent expansion of immigration offences in Britain. Drawing on criminal l...
This article analyses to what extent current responses to crime committed by immigrants can be seen ...
For decades, scholars and advocates criticized the harsh, mandatory nature of the Federal Sentencing...
This article provides a fresh theoretical perspective on the most important development in immigrati...
In this article, we argue that there is a form of double punishment unique to the immigration court ...
This article seeks to reconcile the apparent disparate treatment of downward departures under the Un...
The nation prides itself on the notion of rebirth—the ideal that one can leave their past behind, co...
Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are deported from the United States each year becau...
Thousands of long-term legal permanent residents are removed from the United States each year becaus...
The belief that immigrants are crossing the border, in the stealth of night, with nefarious desires ...
In this Article, Professor Francis argues that non-citizen criminal defendants should be afforded gr...
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court held that defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment du...
Prosecutorial discretion is a critical part of the administration of immigration law. This Article c...
The rise of immigration prosecution as the central feature of the federal criminal justice system ch...
Immigration law is in need of relief. Among the many problems affecting immigration law is the lack ...
This article analyses the recent expansion of immigration offences in Britain. Drawing on criminal l...
This article analyses to what extent current responses to crime committed by immigrants can be seen ...
For decades, scholars and advocates criticized the harsh, mandatory nature of the Federal Sentencing...
This article provides a fresh theoretical perspective on the most important development in immigrati...
In this article, we argue that there is a form of double punishment unique to the immigration court ...
This article seeks to reconcile the apparent disparate treatment of downward departures under the Un...
The nation prides itself on the notion of rebirth—the ideal that one can leave their past behind, co...