Reading Assignments
This Amendment guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This is a form of protection granted to individuals in the U.S. who have been persecuted or fear persecution in their home country.
What is asylum?
This was the first significant federal law to restrict immigration in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Kevin Johnson's article discussed the intersection of these two things in U.S. Immigration Law and Enforcement.
What is race and class?
This law sets forth the definition an applicant must meet to be eligible for asylum.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)?
This is an administrative appellate court that reviews decisions made by immigration judges.
What is the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)?
The ACLU article raised awareness for this community—which makes up over 20 percent of those in deportation proceedings on criminal grounds—in the Black Lives Matter movement.
What is the Black immigrant community?
This is the charging document issued by the Department of Homeland Security to initiate removal proceedings.
What is the Notice to Appear?
This is the percentage estimate of those who have secured legal counsel for their deportation proceedings.
What is 37%?
This law allows federal officials to detain any migrant that is arrested or charged with (even petty) crimes.
What is the Laken Riley Act?
These are the protected grounds that an asylum claim can be based on. (name at least 3 to get credit)
What is race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group?
This is the number of pending immigration cases.
What is 3,687,750?
This is the first test case that aimed to restrict the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
What is Wong Kim Ark?
This is the entity that operates the immigration court system. (hint: executive branch)
What is the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)?
This is the average wait time for a case to be heard.
What is 636 days (~2 years)?