Immigration Article of the Day: “Lessons from the Past: How the Antebellum Fugitive Slave Debate Informs State Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law” by JAMES ADAM KRAEHENBUEHL

“Lessons from the Past: How the Antebellum Fugitive Slave Debate Informs State Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law” University of Chicago Law Review, by JAMES ADAM KRAEHENBUEHL

ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on similarities today’s immigration debate has with the fugitive slave debate in the antebellum United States. It argues that these similarities provide valuable lessons for today’s debate over the constitutionality and potential consequences that differing levels of enforcement on the local level have created, focusing particularly on jurisdictions of overenforcement, such as Arizona’s SB 1070.

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