Professor Chin Quoted by Media on Arizona Immigration Laws
Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin commented for Fronteras on the recent court decisions striking down Arizona laws that sought to regulate immigration. Substantial portions of the state's controversial SB 1070 have been ruled unconstitutional and Proposition 100, which denied bail to undocumented immigrants accused of certain crimes, was struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in December.
Chin said that the Arizona legislature was "willing to experiment" with immigration enforcement, knowing that some laws would fail in court. "They were just hoping to come up with some legal techniques, with some anti-immigrant measures, that would survive and therefore could be exported to other states," he said.
Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.