Immigration Law Stories

Description

This publication includes cases that depict the Supreme Court's broad deference to the political branches in the immigration realm, the so-called "plenary power doctrine. "Selected cases are presented in chronological order, beginning with the Supreme Court's consideration of the Chinese Exclusion Acts of the 1880s and 1890s. The book then examines how the Cold War tested the constitutional limits of the government's plenary power over immigration, and how "phantom constitutional norms "were later used to defeat the government's broadest claims. Other cases explore the immigration enforcement system and the difficulty of balancing the demands of enforcement against other societal goals.;Chae Chan Ping and Fong Yue Ting: the origins of plenary power / Gabriel J. Chin -- Wong Wing v. United States: the Bill of Rights protects illegal aliens / Gerald. L. Neuman -- Wong Kim Ark: the contest over birthright citizenship / Lucy E. Salyer -- Harisiades v. Shaughnessy: a case study in the vulnerability of resident aliens / Burt Neuborne -- The long, complex, and futile deportation saga of Carlos Marcello / Daniel Kanstroom -- Afroyim: vaunting citizenship, presaging transnationality / Peter J. Spiro -- Kleindienst v. Mandel: plenary power v. the professors / Peter H. Schuck -- Plyler v. Doe, the education of undocumented children, and the polity / Michael A. Olivas -- Maria and Joseph Plasencia's lost weekend: the case of Landon v, Plasencia / Kevin R. Johnson -- Adelaide Abankwah, Fauziya Kasinga, and the dilemmas of political asylum / David A. Martin -- INS v. St. Cyr: the campaign to preserve court review and stop retroactive deportation laws / Nancy Morawetz -- Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB: the rules of the workplace for undocumented immigrants / Catherine L. Fisk and Michael J. Wishnie -- Demore v. Kim: Judicial deference to congressional folly / Margaret H. Taylor.