Professor Johnson Talks to CalMatters About Border Patrol Sweeps

Professor Kevin R. Johnson was quoted in an April 2 article in CalMatters, "Federal judge: Continued Border Patrol sweeps in California violated court order." 

Judge Jennifer Thurston of the Eastern District of California last year ordered Border Patrol agents to stop making illegal immigration enforcement stops and arrests. Thurston wrote in a decision unsealed earlier this month that agents continued this practice and “again detained people without reasonable suspicion.” 

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Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson is the director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies and also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law and civil rights.