Johnson Provides Op-Ed on LTVN
Professor Kevin Johnson provided commentary on immigration on The Legal Television Network (LTVN). His January 3, 2007, column, "Who Cares About How We Treat Immigrants?," looked at the meatpacking plant raids conducted by U.S. immigration authorities across six states and Gulf Coast immigrants after Hurricane Katrina.
In his column, Johnson concludes, "The political defect in the U.S. immigration bureaucracy suggests a deeper problem with American democracy in an era of globalization. Many immigrants live in the United States and are subject to its laws and their enforcement. However, noncitizens ordinarily cannot expect the government to be responsive to their needs like it is to those of citizens. This lack of responsiveness goes well beyond disaster relief. It affects Congress and our immigration laws and their enforcement."
Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals. His book, How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity, was published in 1999 and was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His latest book, The "Huddled Masses" Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights, was published in 2004.
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In his column, Johnson concludes, "The political defect in the U.S. immigration bureaucracy suggests a deeper problem with American democracy in an era of globalization. Many immigrants live in the United States and are subject to its laws and their enforcement. However, noncitizens ordinarily cannot expect the government to be responsive to their needs like it is to those of citizens. This lack of responsiveness goes well beyond disaster relief. It affects Congress and our immigration laws and their enforcement."
Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals. His book, How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity, was published in 1999 and was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His latest book, The "Huddled Masses" Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights, was published in 2004.
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