Dean Johnson Comments on Board of Immigration Appeals Ruling for Sacramento Bee
Dean Kevin R. Johnson commented for the Sacramento Bee on the impact of a 2010 immigration ruling that found that a woman facing deportation had entered the country legally when she crossed the border without documentation in 2001 because the car she was travelling in had been inspected and admitted. The article was reprinted in the San Francisco Examiner.
The ruling "isn't a silver bullet for undocumented immigrants," Dean Johnson said, but in certain circumstances may be of use to immigrants in deportation proceedings. "We haven't seen a flood of these cases since the 2010 decision."
Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.