Dean Johnson Comments on Supreme Court Immigration Ruling for NPR

Dean Kevin R. Johnson commented for National Public Radio's All Things Considered on a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the Bush administration's application of aggravated identity theft charges against undocumented immigrants.  The court ruled unanimously that the aggravated identity theft charge, which carries a mandatory two years prison sentence, was not properly applied to immigrants who used false identification without knowing that the information belonged to a real person.

Interviewed by NPR's Nina Totenberg, Dean Johnson noted that this was the third consecutive Court decision that overturned an immigration-related policy of the Bush administration.  "That's telling me that the administration was taking some tough positions on immigration-related matters that even a conservative Supreme Court can't swallow," said Dean Johnson.

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.