Deportation must go on; aliens can't stop INS ouster with constitutional claim

Article Abstract:

The US Supreme Court upheld one of the court-stripping provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 in the 1999 ruling of Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The ruling upheld one of the act's court-stripping provisions, stating that judges have no power to intervene to stop deportation, even when First Amendment rights are at issue. The ruling stated that illegal aliens have no constitutional right to claim selective enforcement as a defense against deportation.

Interpretation and construction, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law

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Full benefits, no waiting; new life for the old privileges and immunities clause in welfare entitlement

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The US Supreme Court used the privileges and immunities clause to invalidate a California law giving a two-tiered system of welfare benefits, and until Saenz, the California law had required a year of residence in the state to qualify for full welfare benefits. Former Governor Pete Wilson sponsored this law, boasting he hoped to end California's attraction as a "welfare magnet," and one provision of national welfare reform specifically authorized states to pay lower benefits to newcomers.

States, Cases, Welfare recipients, Privileges and immunities, Domicile in public welfare, Public welfare domicile

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The great alien lockout; can Congress bar courts from hearing deportation challenges?

Article Abstract:

The Supreme Court will consider the legality of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 in Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The law tries to shut off lengthy deportation appeals by illegal aliens, and the jurisdictional limitations raise one of the greatest unanswered constitutional law issues. That laws can restrict and regulate jurisdiction is generally accepted, but not that they can refuse access to the courts entirely.

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