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30 J.L. & Pol. 401 (2014-2015)
The Future of Immigration Enforcement, a Tribute to David A. Martin

handle is hein.journals/jlp30 and id is 417 raw text is: Foreword: The Future of Immigration Enforcement, a Tribute to David A. Martin Kerry Abrams* Our immigration law is a complex and politically-charged subject. Through it, we determine who may enter the country and under what conditions, who may stay, and who must leave. We use it to define the group of people eligible to become U.S. citizens. We allow families who have been separated to be reunited. We enhance our global competitiveness through the admission of people with skills, talents, and entrepreneurial ambitions. Immigration law also enables us to provide humanitarian relief to the persecuted by setting forth a framework for obtaining refugee status. In short, immigration law is an important mechanism for shaping our country's future. In the last several years, it has been the enforcement aspects of immigration law that have proven the most divisive and volatile. The subject of enforcement raises numerous questions regarding how government officials should ensure compliance with the law. Should they attempt to remove every violator from the country? Raid workplaces or homes searching for violators? Construct a fence on the border? Exercise their discretion to look the other way if an unlawfully-present alien is otherwise law-abiding? What kinds of due process protections should be in place? This symposium, jointly sponsored by the University of Virginia Immigration Law Program and the Journal of Law & Politics, aims to critically assess the possible directions for immigration enforcement in the coming decades. It is fitting that we have chosen to publish this symposium in honor of Professor David A. Martin, who is one of the world's leading immigration scholars and a crafter of many of the United States' most successful immigration enforcement mechanisms. Immigration enforcement issues have dominated the political landscape in the last several years. For example, Secure Communities, a program begun under President George W. Bush and expanded under President Barack Obama, has been the subject of widespread criticism. The program allows Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to identify immigration violators among people arrested by federal, state, or local police, through a check of all fingerprints that are sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against Department of Homeland * Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.

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