Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Rethinking Immigration Exceptionalism(s)
Immprofs Rubenstein & Gulasakarem
At Yale’s Notice-and-Comment blog, immprof David Rubenstein suggests that United States v. Texas provides an opportunity to rethink immigration exceptionalism -- or, as he and co-author Deep Gulasekaram explain in their forthcoming article -- “immigration exceptionalism(s).
David writes:
When petitioning for certiorari, the United States’ reply brief framed Texas as a case “that implicates fundamental questions of standing, separation of powers, federal immigration authority, and administrative law . . . .” To pile on, however, we might also ask the following: Do all of these “fundamental questions” warrant exceptional treatment? None of them? Just some of them? And if so, which ones, and why not the others?
That is to say: "how should we split the exceptionalism atom?"
Their co-authored piece doesn't seek to answer this question. Rather, it "shine[s] a spotlight on that conceptual void, and explore what it may entail for the future of immigration theory and advocacy."
-KitJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/02/rethinking-immigration-exceptionalisms.html