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Constitutional collision in Colorado anti-immigrant bill

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández and Christopher N. Lasch The virulent tone of immigration rhetoric that propelled Donald Trump to the presidency has come to Colorado. A Republican state legislator proposes to bar cities or local governmental units from limiting their cooperation with ICE. And then he goes where even President Trump hasn’t dared: criminalizing the very act of voting in favor of limiting cooperation with ICE. The proposal, House Bill 17-1134, titled the “Colorado Politician Accountability Act,” is a constitutional train wreck. If our students submitted this for a course, [...]

Posted by César on February 21, 2017 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, Colorado state court, commentaries, detainer, local immigration policing, proposed legislation, sanctuary, state court

Must local police work for ICE?

Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to attack communities that resist his hateful rhetoric about migrants. In particular, he has repeatedly stated that he will work with Congress to cut off federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities.” Like with much else, he hasn’t bothered to tell us what he means by a sanctuary city. That term is thrown around so much that without a working definition, it is hard to make sense of which cities might come under attack by a Trump anti-sanctuary move. As I wrote in Crimmigration Law, though “sanctuary policies” take a variety of forms, “they all [...]

Posted by César on January 17, 2017 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, Congress, detainer, IIRIRA, local immigration policing, sanctuary

Is the border truly a shoot-at-will location?

The Fourth Amendment offers a powerful bulwark against the state’s power to deprive people of their liberty. Only with the intercession of a neutral arbiter, the text indicates, can the government exercise its immense coercive powers. Anyone who has followed the evolution of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence over the last three decades knows that this promise is far from the reality. Along the border, however, even the watered-down state in which the Fourth Amendment hobbles along might be too much. Is it possible that a Border Patrol officer might have wielded his weapon too loosely, but the [...]

Posted by César on October 18, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, border militarization, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Supreme Court

Utah v. Strieff and the Exclusionary Rule’s Future in Immigration Court – Part II

By Katie Tinto The availability of the exclusionary rule as a remedy for unconstitutional police conduct was recently further restricted by the Supreme Court in Utah v. Strieff, ___ S. Ct. ___, No. 14-1373 (June 20, 2016). In a prior blog post, I warned of the potential of Strieff to seriously limit the availability of the suppression remedy in immigration court. Although the exclusionary rule in immigration court may not be directly impacted, the decision will likely have a detrimental effect on our immigrant communities and the manner in which they are policed. To quickly summarize the [...]

Posted by César on August 9, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, guest blogger, motion to suppress, U.S. Supreme Court, Utah state court

Utah v. Strieff and the Exclusionary Rule’s Future in Immigration Court

By Katie Tinto Immigration scholars and practitioners should pay close attention to the outcome of Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court two weeks ago. 357 P.3d 532 (Utah 2015), cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 27 (U.S. Oct. 1, 2015) (No. 14-1373). In this case, the police detained Mr. Strieff without reasonable suspicion, and then, after obtaining his identification, ran a routine warrant check on his name and discovered an outstanding arrest warrant for a traffic violation. During the search incident to arrest on the traffic warrant, the officer found [...]

Posted by César on March 10, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, guest blogger, motion to suppress, U.S. Supreme Court, Utah state court

Immigration Arrests Violate the Fourth Amendment

By Michael Kagan The manner in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes people into custody at the outset of removal proceedings fails to meet the constitutional requirements for seizure of a person under the Fourth Amendment. In other words, immigration arrests are unconstitutional. This may seem like an ambitious argument because it would upend the manner by which federal authorities have enforced immigration law since the 19th Century. But the constitutional analysis is in in fact quite simple. Indeed, the constitutional problems with immigration arrests are so [...]

Posted by César on November 12, 2015 on 4:00 am 4 Comments
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, bond, guest blogger, imprisonment, U.S. Supreme Court

Defining crimmigration law: Part III

A working conceptualization of crimmigration law, at least as it plays out in the United States, must start with the radical changes to substantive law that I’ve described in parts I and II of this series of essays on defining crimmigration law. But it can’t end there. As an emergent area of law, crimmigration law is highly functional. Consequently, one of its lasting—and, frankly, devastating—impacts, enforcement, merits as much attention as the substantive law previously discussed. Indeed, I give enforcement methods special attention in Part III of my book Crimmigration Law. Crimmigration [...]

Posted by César on September 29, 2015 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, border militarization, commentaries, Crimmigration Law book, imprisonment, local immigration policing, Operation Streamline

Racial profiling in immigration policing lives on

Racial profiling may be out of favor within many circles, but it remains alive and well when it comes to immigration policing along the border. Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder released the Justice Department’s latest guidance on the use of race, ethnicity, and other protected categories (gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity) by federal law enforcement officials. U.S. Department of Justice, Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Regarding the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity [...]

Posted by César on December 9, 2014 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 4th Amendment, border militarization, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncategorized

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