Product Description: Along with the civil rights and voting rights acts, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is one of the most important bills of the civil rights era. The Act's political, legal, and demographic impact continues to be felt, yet its legacy is controversial...read more

Immigration for Paralegals is an indispensable and practical guide on U.S. immigration, citizenship, and visa procedures for instructing and training students or anyone interested in a career as an immigration paralegal or legal assistant.A competent assistant is imperative as immigration practitioners work on mastering all the new rules and regulations under The Homeland Security Act.Contents include: Interviewing, gathering information, case management, and document preparation techniques.Analysis of temporary and permanent employment visas.Family-based petitions, political asylum, naturalization.Samples of completed applications, glossary, and appendices.Each visa category is set forth in a clear and concise manner, with real life, hypothetical situations at the end of each chapter, allowing students to visualize actual problems and issues that arise when processing a case. Furthermore, in responding to the hypothetical situations, students will look to the United States immigration statutes, rules and regulations, and precedent and administrative policies to resolve issues. In addition, each section contains a completed sample application, definition of legal terms, and exercised modeled after tasks paralegals may encounter on the job, including the preparation of relative petitions (Form I-130) and the adjustment of a status package (Forms I-485, G-325A, I-131, I-765, I-864A, and G-28). In keeping with the concise format of each chapter, excerpts from Federal, AAO, and BIA decisions will be cited or footnoted where relevant.The Glossary and Appendices include Immigration Law resources; INS Local, Regional, and Service Center addresses; questions and answers for the naturalization exam; blank INS forms; Credential Evaluation sample request forms and a list of agencies; sample INS color photograph specifications, sample medical form (I-688); and IRS Individual Tax ID Number Request (SS-4).

Product Description: Given the many ways in which immigration law can affect a single individual as well as as large corporation, most lawyers will encounter a client needing immigration law advice. Yet for the nonspecialist, immigration law can be daunting, particularly because it is governed by a complex mix of statutes, regulations, and federal and administrative court guidance—as well as by adjudicatory policies from multiple administrative agencies...read more

Product Description: Immigration law is never an easy area to tackle, and no one knows this better than the attorneys practicing in the field. It doesn't matter who your client is-be they foreign entrepreneurs, individuals seeking a better life, or families looking for refuge-they all encounter challenges with the legal system, including deferred action, visa issues, and even deportation...read more

Product Description: What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the U.S. and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically voluminous - remains doctrinally curtailed...read more

Product Description: The first book to comprehensively describe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument...read more

Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy become apparent. Using a unique sociolegal perspective, authors Zatz and Rodriguez examine the mechanisms by which immigration policies and practices mitigate or exacerbate harm to vulnerable youth. They pay particular attention to prosecutorial discretion, assessing its potential and limitations for resolving issues involving parental detention and deportation, unaccompanied minors, and Dreamers who came to the United States as young children. The book demonstrates how these policies and practices offer a means of prioritizing immigration enforcement in ways that alleviate harm to children, and why they remain controversial and vulnerable to political challenges.

Product Description: Global Cities and Immigrants provides a detailed set of comparative case studies of the immigration policies of two global cities undergoing dramatic demographic changes. At the heart of this research are several theoretical questions...read more

Product Description: A thorough exploration of and compassionate solutions to current U.S. immigration policy   Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto Gonzales and David Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate...read more

American maritime law probably seems like a world unto itself to most law students. This text gives you a first-class ticket to that world. It covers many recent developments in the United States Supreme Court on seaman status and remedies. Yet it is much more than an update. It gives the scope and highlights of the field that you need to excel in understanding it, from maritime jurisdiction to sovereign immunity. This will help you answer exam questions more quickly and accurately.

Product Description: Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled with issues of federalism and states’ rights. In almost every area of law, from abortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federal government over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws...read more

Product Description: Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy.• Covers policies pertaining to immigrants and immigration reform and relates these policies to associated topics such as language, bilingual education, housing, borders, and voting rights• Provides immigration policy analyses that are engaging and accessible to a wide range of readers• Examines past policy actions as well as findings from recent case studies, allowing readers to grasp the specific racial dimensions intertwined in these controversial policies and debate...read more

Product Description: This full color title is focused on an upper elementary reader understanding the basic immigration laws of the U.S. today. The content is accurate and up-to-date through 2013. This is an excellent resource on the topic.

Product Description: Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the promised protection of human rights seems to break down when it comes to the lived experience of irregular migrants...read more

Product Description: Behind the Green Card explodes the innumerable myths and bogeymen that obscure the reality of US immigration policy. Blinded by misguided national security interests, the United States has codified a series of unworkable and irresponsible laws which make this country weaker, poorer and less secure than ever...read more

Product Description: Immigration law is unique in its national security applications because, while it may be used as a mechanism for keeping the enemy out, it is also the apparatus for entry into the United States. This book examines this topic first by conducting a historical overview of using immigration law for national security purposes, and then exploring the laws and cases themselves...read more