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    • McKanders, Karla M. (Howard Law Journal, 2015)
      Through discriminatory rhetoric state and local officials construct delinquent juvenile immigrant youth as the embodiment of a threat to public safety and American values. Accordingly, alleged delinquent undocumented ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 2009)
      Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 2013)
      Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion of civil rights issues. States and localities assert that they should ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Catholic University Law Review, 2012)
      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. ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, 2010)
      Latino immigrants are moving to areas of the country that have not seen a major influx of immigrants. As a result of this influx, citizens of these formerly homogenous communities have become increasingly critical of federal ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, 2010)
      The voices of the most vulnerable populations often point towards social constructs in dire need of systemic change. The treatment of immigrant women in workplace raids exemplifies this concept. Over the last couple of ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 2009)
      On July 13, 2006, the city of Hazleton made national news as the first municipality in the country to pass ordinances against illegal immigrants. The majority of municipal legislation that passed regulated the employment ...