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61 Cath. U. L. Rev. 921 (2011-2012)
Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities

handle is hein.journals/cathu61 and id is 939 raw text is: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS: EXPLORING THEIR SIMILARITIES Karla Mari McKanders+ I. COMPARING THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS AND PRIGG V. PENNSYLVANIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY ..... 925 A. 1789 Fugitive Slave Clause and the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act ......... 925 B. State Personal Liberty Laws ............................................................ 927 C. Prigg v. Pennsylvania and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act .................. 929 D. The Impact of the Fourteenth Amendment's Reconstruction Clause on the Fugitive Slave Acts and Early Immigration Law ........... 934 II. IMMIGRATION: A STORY OF FAILED FEDERALISM ............................... 939 A. Parallel Stories of the Failure of Federalism ................................. 939 B. States and Localities Take Action .................................................... 941 1. A rizona: S.B . 1070 ...................................................................... 941 2. A labam a: H ouse Bill 56 .............................................................. 943 3. Georgia's Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act ...... 944 4. U tah: H .B . 49 7 ............................................................................ 945 C. State Laws Demonstrate a Failure of Federalism ........................... 946 III. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACTS AND CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS C REATE O UTSID ERS ................................................................................. 947 A. Racial Profiling and the Presumption of Illegality Against Fugitive Slaves and Immigrants ........................................................... 947 B. Membership Within a State: Are Fugitive Slaves and Immigrants Chattel or H umans? .......................................................... 949 IV . C ON CLU SION ..................................................................................... 952 Two seemingly different federal enforcement systems that affect the movement of unskilled workers-the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts and current state immigration enforcement policies-have remarkable similarities. Both systems are political stories that are demonstrative of the failure of federalism. The federal government's current failure to enforce immigration laws has encouraged state and local governments to pass their own laws. Alabama and Arizona have enacted far-reaching laws, which are similar to the + B.A., Spelman College, J.D., Duke University School of Law. Thank you to the Louisiana State University Scholarship Workshop, Washington University Junior Faculty Workshop, Emerging Immigration Professor's Workshop, and the Lutie Lytle Writing Workshop for the opportunity to present this paper. A special thanks to Joan Hemingway, Ben Barton, Yolanda Vazquez, Angela Banks, Kristina Campbell, Ingrid Eagly, Kerry Abrams, Kevin Johnson, and Kenneth McKanders for extensive feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. Thank you to Caroline Latsha for your research assistance.

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