Immigration and Employment Presentations (Breaching Borders Immigration Symposium)

Juliet Stumpf, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School; Rick Su, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Journal, University at Buffalo Law School; David S. Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, 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 afternoon session "Immigration and Employment." A significant number of immigrants are working illegally in the United States. In an effort to both protect the legal work force and to deter illegal immigration, the federal government has criminalized the hiring of undocumented workers and in recent years has heightened workplace enforcement. Some states are experimenting with new laws designed to complement, mirror, and/or expand upon federal law and have been challenged by the federal government on preemption grounds. These presentations explored the competing sides of the debate, and the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, 131 S.Ct. 1968 (2011). Visit http://washburnlaw.edu/breachingborders/ for more information about this symposium.

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Education

Tags:

• Immigration
• immigrants
• Border
• employment
• Whiting
• preemption