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Immigration Law and Social Justice (Third Edition), by Bill Ong Hing, Jennifer M. Chacón, and Kevin R. Johnson, provides a fresh view on immigration law and ICE enforcement through a social justice lens. This innovative casebook approaches immigration law and policy from a public interest perspective with a special emphasis on issues of social justice. Along with cases and statutory material, Immigration Law and Social Justice employs a variety of materials from appellate cases, client examples, article excerpts, and hypotheticals. These materials not only provide the basic framework for immigration law, but also engage students with the greater social, political, and economic context necessary to understand the movement of immigrants to the United States, as well as the human impact of immigration law enforcement and administration. As the normal of immigration enforcement changes rapidly, this book confronts the new standards and the problems faced by noncitizens and their allies, including racial profiling during ICE raids, record-setting numbers of deportations, the cancellation of protections previously granted to thousands, and the firing of immigration judges with high asylum approval grant rates. Through examples, notes and questions that raise the social, racial, and political questions of admission and enforcement, as well as discussion of public interest lawyers’ strategies, this casebook advances students’ understanding of the creative approaches used in the field. Ultimately, this book encourages students to think broadly about relevant social, economic, and political forces. More than ever, students of immigration law need to consider social justice strategies in response to the ever-changing political environment. 

New to the Third Edition: 

• New asylum standards imposed by the Attorney General of the United States 
• Analysis of the Alien Enemies Act 
• Analysis of the challenge to birthright citizenship 
• The ramifications of cancellation of Temporary Protected Status 
• New sections on ICE enforcement using racial-profiling strategies 
• A re-examination of federalism through the lens of a new Supreme Court majority in favor of state immigration laws 
• New social justice strategies for challenging ICE enforcement and detention 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

• Deep background on the social context of immigration law and its enforcement in the context of a sophisticated examination of the technicalities of relevant statutory and administrative law 
• Materials encouraging students to learn relevant law with an eye toward potential advocacy, including litigation strategies 
• Contextual background to understand immigration and immigration enforcement 
• Unique focus on immigration and social justice, as well as public interest immigration lawyering 
• Focus on issues of contemporary relevance, highlighting some of the most contentious areas of immigration law and policy 
• Materials designed to facilitate student understanding of the letter of immigration law, and to encourage students to think creatively about possible reform 
• Integrated critical materials exploring the role of race, class, religion, gender, and disability in immigration law and policy 
• Problems designed to encourage active learning and application of law