Immigration Reform: Rights for America’s Undocumented: Keynote Address
Introduction
Suggested Reading
Steps Forward, Not Far Enough
Elissa Steglich{{Elissa Steglich is Clinical Professor at the Immigration Clinic of the University of Texas School of Law. She has litigated extensively before the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and federal circuit courts, defending immigrants against deportation. Her
Conservative Progressivism in Immigrant Habeas Court: Why Boumediene v. Bush is the Baseline Constitutional Minimum
Ever since Boumediene was decided federal judges have not applied the full force of all six of Boumediene’s holdings to immigrant habeas cases, and as a direct result immigration advocates lost their most important cases to date.
Families Divided: The Denial of Family Integrity Rights in the Immigration Context
Despite substantial case law developing a right to family integrity, the jurisprudence has fallen short of protecting children from the deportation of their parents.
Beyond the U Visa and Carceral Feminist "Crimmigration": Transforming the VAWA Self-Petition to Remedy Sexual Violence in Immigration Detention
The transformed VAWA self-petition lays the foundation for a reimagined basis for immigration relief. In this reimagination, state responsiveness is connected to a recognition of the structural policies and practices placed survivors in harm’s way; it is this recognition that