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Huyen Pham: Problems Facing the First Generation of Local Immigration Laws

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Huyen-Pham2 Here is the latest from Professor Huyen Pham, who has written some important scholarship on local efforts at regulating immigration:

“Problems Facing the First Generation of Local Immigration Laws” Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2008 HUYEN PHAM, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 

ABSTRACT:  Many jurisdictions that have enacted local immigration laws have experienced financial, legal, and community-related problems in their implementation. Yet public attention continues to focus on the successful enactment of these laws, largely ignoring their often problematic implementation. The purpose of this Article is to shed light on the problems that many of these first generation local immigration laws are experiencing and to consider, briefly, the implications of these problems for local immigration enforcement generally.

KJ