State Policy Potpourri Presentations (Breaching Borders Immigration Symposium)

Kris W. Kobach, Secretary of State for Kansas; Nora V. Demleitner, Dean and Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law; and Patrick J. Charles, Historian, U.S. Air Force 352nd Special Operations Group, present at the Washburn University School of Law symposium, Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain? on Thursday, October 20, 2011 during the morning session "State Policy Potpourri: Some Comparative Assessments." State policy makers across the United States are advancing a number of proposals that are bound up in the great debate regarding the current state of federal immigration law and its shortcomings. In some states, leaders are advancing efforts to adopt stepped-up anti-voter fraud provisions that many believe are aimed at undocumented immigrants. In other states, local law enforcement officials are becoming deeply enmeshed in the enforcement of federal immigration law. In another set of states, some leaders have worked to enhance the prospects for undocumented immigrants either by enabling them to attend public colleges and universities at in-state tuition rates, authorizing them to obtain drivers licenses, or both. Yet many opponents in those same states are actively seeking to block or roll-back those efforts. This panel discussed and analyzed this state policy potpourri and offers some comparative assessments. Shawn Leisinger, Executive Director of the Centers for Excellence, and Thomas Romig, Dean, at Washburn Law welcome attendees. Visit http://washburnlaw.edu/breachingborders/ for more information about this symposium.

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Education

Tags:

• immigration
• border
• immigrants
• voters
• immigration law