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Immigration Law

Contribution to Book

Attacking Democracy Through Immigration Workplace Raids

Labor and Democracy (2021)

Bill Ong Hing

Democracy is under attack through immigration workplace raids. Labor unions have finally come to realize that noncitizen workers—documented and undocumented—are ...

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Contribution to Book

In Defense of Chain Migration

Christianity and the Law of Migration (2021)

Bill Ong Hing

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States enter through categories set forth in a statutory selection system that ...

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Article

Curtailing the Deportation of Undocumented Parents in the Best Interest ...

Georgetown Immigration Law Review (2020)

Bill Ong Hing and Lizzie Bird

Undocumented noncitizens facing deportation who have resided in the United States for at least ten years often seek cancellation of ...

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Article

Mistreating Central American Refugees: Repeating History in Response to Humanitarian ...

Hastings Race & Poverty (2020)

Bill Ong Hing

In the 1980s, tens of thousands of Central Americans fled to the United States seeking refuge from civil unrest that ...

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Book

Deporter-in-Chief: Obama v. Trump

(2018)

Bill Ong Hing

President Barack Obama was dubbed “Deporter-in-Chief” by immigrant rights advocates for good reason. During his eight years in office, his ...

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Unpublished Paper

Beyond DACA – Defying Employer Sanctions Through Civil Disobedience

(2018)

Bill Ong Hing

The fact that DACA recipients—and essentially all Dreamers—have become part of the conscience of the country and a critical part ...

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Book

Immigration Law and Social Justice

(2018)

Bill Ong Hing, Jennifer M Chacón and Kevin R. Johnson

We are happy to announce the publication of our new casebook: Immigration Law and Social Justice, published by Wolters Kluwer, ...

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Article

Entering the Trump Ice Age: Contextualizing the New Immigration Enforcement ...

5 Tex. A&M L.Rev. ___ (Forthcoming) (2017)

Bill Ong Hing

During the early stages of the Trump ICE age, we seem to be witnessing and experiencing an unparalleled era of ...

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Contribution to Book

MIGRATION AND REGIONAL POLICY IN THE AMERICAS

Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas (2017)

Bill Ong Hing

Since the executive branch is charged with the responsibility to enforce immigration laws, the executive has vast discretionary authority to ...

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Article

Contemplating a Rebellious Approach to Representing Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ...

Clinical Law Review (2016)

Bill Ong Hing

In response to the surge of unaccompanied immigrant children at the border in the summer of 2014, I expanded my ...

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Article

From Ferguson to Palestine: Disrupting Race-Based Policing

Howard Law Journal (2016)

Since Michael Brown's killing, "Ferguson" has become the battle cry of embattled black communities targeted by over-policing and activists protesting ...

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Contribution to Book

African Migration to the United States: Assigned to the Back ...

Perspectives On The Immigration And Nationality Act Amendments Of 1965 (2015)

Bill Ong Hing

This book project, timed on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 immigration amendments, recognizes many significant effects that the amendments ...

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Article

Ethics, Morality, and Disruption of U.S. Immigration Laws

Kansas Law Review (2015)

Bill Ong Hing

In this essay, I review Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement tools and what I feel is the unnecessary havoc ...

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Article

The Pressure is On—Criminal Defense Counsel Strategies after Padilla ...

Denver Law Review (2015)

Bill Ong Hing

The Supreme Court’s message to criminal defense attorneys in Padilla v. Kentucky was clear: when there is a risk of ...

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Article

Re-Examining the Zero-Tolerance Approach to Deporting Aggravated Felons: Restoring Discretionary ...

Harvard Law & Policy Review (2014)

Bill Ong Hing

In this essay, I argue that immigration judges should regain discretion over deportation cases involving lawful permanent resident immigrants who ...

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Contribution to Book

Redressing the Shame of U.S. Immigration Laws and Enforcement ...

Hidden Lives and Human Rights in America: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration (2014)

Bill Ong Hing

n this chapter, I provide a focused view of certain examples of U.S. immigration laws and enforcement policies that have ...

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Article

Immigration Sanctuary Policies: Constitutional and Representative of Good Policing and ...

UC Irvine Law Review (2012)

Bill Ong Hing

Sanctuary ordinances or policies that constrain local authorities from assisting in federal immigration enforcement do not receive the same political ...

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Article

Superman Had Nothin on Keith Aoki

UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal (2012)

Bill Ong Hing

In this tribute to the late Keith Aoki, Professor of Law at U.C. Davis, I point out that at the ...

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Article

Reason Over Hysteria: Keynote Essay

Loyola University New Orleans Journal of Public Interest Law (2011)

Bill Ong Hing

We are a nation of immigrants, but we also are a nation that loves to debate immigration policy, and that ...

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Contribution to Book

Thinking Broadly About Immigration Reform by Addressing Root Causes

Legal Briefs on Immigration Reform From 25 of the Top Legal Minds in the Country (2011)

Bill Ong Hing

The United States is caught up in hysteria, media-induced fear, and misinformation over undocumented immigration. We have militarized the border ...

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Article

Asian Americans and Immigration Reform

Asian American Law Journal (2010)

Bill Ong Hing

Asian Americans have a lot to gain from progressive immigration reform. Today, our relatives abroad make up the bulk of ...

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Article

Systemic Failure: Mental Illness, Detention, and Deportation

UC Davis Journal of Immigration Law and Policy (2010)

Bill Ong Hing

Our detention and deportation system failed Tatyana Mitrohina. She was born in Russia with heart defects and deformed hands. She ...

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Article

The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions

Fordham Urban Law Journal (2010)

David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing

Workplace Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids by gun-wielding agents resulting in the mass arrests of dozens and sometimes hundreds ...

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Article

Institutional Racism, ICE Raids, and Immigration Reform

University of San Francisco Law Review (2009)

Bill Ong Hing

This Article argues that the structure of immigration laws has institutionalized a set of values that dehumanize, demonize, and criminalize ...

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Article

Legal Services Support Centers and Rebellious Advocacy: A Case Study ...

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (2008)

Bill Ong Hing

Public interest lawyers and clinical law faculty are quite familiar with the strategies of rebellious or collaborative lawyering set forth ...

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