Immigration Law and Policy

Catalog description

This course is a survey of U.S. immigration law with an emphasis on immigration policy and current developments. This class is intended to provide a foundation on which to understand immigration law as it currently exists. Topics include the history and legal foundations of U.S. immigration law and will cover family and employment-based immigration benefits, criminal immigration provisions, grounds of inadmissibility, detention/removal, refugee and asylum law, and U.S. citizenship.