Understanding the impact of the 1996 deportation laws and the limited scope of proposed reforms

Harvard Law Review

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1936-

  Morawetz, Nancy ^a  

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EID: 0043225613     PISSN: 0017811X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1342314     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996) (codified in scattered sections of 8, 18, 22, 28, 40, and 42 U.S.C.).
2. Pub. L. No. 104-208, div. C, 110 Stat. 3009-546 (1996) (codified in scattered sections of 8 and 18 U.S.C.).
3. Under IIRIRA, deportation is now termed "removal." I continue to use the term "deportation" because I believe it better reflects the real impact of the laws.
4. Sec infra Part II. See generally Nancy Morawetz, Rethinking Retroactive Deportation Laws and the Due Process Clause, 73 N.Y.U. L. REV. 97, 107-14 (1998) (describing changes in the deportation laws that resulted from the enactment of AEDPA and IIRIRA).
5. See Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) § 236(c)(1), 8 U.S.C. § 12a6(c)(1) (Supp. II 1996).
6. See, e.g., U.S. COMM'N ON IMMIGRATION REFORM, 1997 REPORT TO CONGRESS: BECOMING AN AMERICAN: IMMIGRATION & IMMIGRANT POLICY 143-45 (1997); Morawetz, supra note 4 ; Peter H. Schuck & John Williams, Removing Criminal Aliens: The Pitfalls and Promises of Federalism, 22 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 367, 372 (1999) (observing that opponents of the 1996 laws focus on their retroactive effect); Paige Krasker, Note, Crimes of the Past Revisited: Legal Aliens De
7. See, e.g., U.S. COMM'N ON IMMIGRATION REFORM, 1997 REPORT TO CONGRESS: BECOMING AN AMERICAN: IMMIGRATION & IMMIGRANT POLICY 143-45 (1997); Morawetz, supra note 4 ; Peter H. Schuck & John Williams, Removing Criminal Aliens: The Pitfalls and Promises of Federalism, 22 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 367, 372 (1999) (observing that opponents of the 1996 laws focus on their retroactive effect); Paige Krasker, Note, Crimes of the Past Revisited: Legal Aliens De
8. See, e.g., U.S. COMM'N ON IMMIGRATION REFORM, 1997 REPORT TO CONGRESS: BECOMING AN AMERICAN: IMMIGRATION & IMMIGRANT POLICY 143-45 (1997); Morawetz, supra note 4 ; Peter H. Schuck & John Williams, Removing Criminal Aliens: The Pitfalls and Promises of Federalism, 22 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 367, 372 (1999) (observing that opponents of the 1996 laws focus on their retroactive effect); Paige Krasker, Note, Crimes of the Past Revisited: Legal Aliens De-