Fordham Urban Law Journal has released an issue devoted to the subject of immigration law and urban policy. Here are the articles included in the issue:

• WELCOME TO AMERIZONA—IMMIGRANTS OUT!: ASSESSING “DYSTOPIAN DREAMS” AND “USABLE FUTURES” OF IMMIGRATION REFORM, AND CONSIDERING WHETHER “IMMIGRATION REGIONALISM” IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME by Keith Aoki & John Shuford
• THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPLOYER SANCTIONS by David Bacon & Bill Ong Hing
• COMPASSIONATE IMMIGRATION REFORM by Steven W. Bender
• BORDER EXCEPTIONALISM IN THE ERA OF MOVING BORDERS by Jennifer M. Chacón
• BECAUSE YOU’RE MINE, I WALK THE LINE*: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF THE FAMILY VISA PROGRAM by Evelyn H. Cruz
• ATTRACTING THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: A CRITIQUE OF THE CURRENT U.S. IMMIGRATION SYSTEM by Chris Gafner & Stephen Yale-Loehr
• LESSONS LEARNED, LESSONS LOST: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT’S FAILED EXPERIMENT WITH PENAL SEVERITY by Teresa A. Miller
• ASYLUM RIGHTS AND WRONGS: WHAT THE PROPOSED REFUGEE PROTECTION ACT WILL DO AND WHAT MORE WILL NEED TO BE DONE by Michele R. Pistone
• DECRIMINALIZING BORDER CROSSINGS by Victor C. Romero
• IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT VERSUS EMPLOYMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATED PROTECTIONS IN THE IMMIGRANT WORKPLACE by Leticia M. Saucedo
• MAKING THE CASE FOR CHANGING U.S. POLICY REGARDING HIGHLY SKILLED IMMIGRANTS by Peter H. Schuck & John E. Tyler
• IMMIGRATION AS URBAN POLICY by Rick Su
• ENTERING THE MAINSTREAM: MAKING CHILDREN MATTER IN IMMIGRATION LAW by David B. Thronson
• MEXICAN FAMILIES & UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION REFORM by Bernard Trujillo

The film Strangers No More won the Academy Award for Best Documentary - Short Subject this evening. The film is described as follows at IMDB:

In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. The film follows several students' struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy: Mohammed, a sixteen-year-old refugee from Darfur, witnessed the killing of his grandmother and father before escaping alone through Egypt to Israel. Having never been in a school before, his sharp mind and tremendous determination enable him to make up the years of study he never had. Johannes arrived at Bialik-Rogozin after spending most of his life in refugee camps across the Middle East. His father struggles to obtain a work visa while twelve-year-old Johannes struggles to adjust to attending school for the first time. After a slow start, his teachers realize that he is nearly blind in one eye and take him to an eye clinic. With his new glasses, before long, he is reading and writing - and helping other newcomers to adjust. After the murder of her mother, Esther and her father fled South Africa with nothing, in search of safety and peace of mind. At Bialik-Rogozin, they are welcomed with clothing, food and counsel on beginning a new life. Esther's teachers try to relieve the trauma of a nine-year-old girl who believes her mother will return. With tremendous effort and dedication, the school provides the support these children need to recover from their past. Together, the bond between teacher and student, and amongst the students themselves, enables them to create new lives in this exceptional community. Upon graduation, Mohammed provides the finest evidence of the school's ultimate success -- declaring his dream to return to Darfur and build a school for the children of the village he once fled.

No surprise, but it's worth noting that Republicans are also more in favor of leaving the 14th Amendment alone than messing with it.

Wendy Padilla-Madden reports on Lawogix's I-9 blog that Howard Industries, the Laurel, MS company raided in 2008, has pled guilty and will pay $2.5 million, a record fine in Mississippi:

Howard Industries, a privately held manufacturer of electrical transmission and distribution equipment, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to violate immigration laws for actions discovered during an August 2008 immigration raid on the company’s transformer plant in Laurel, Mississippi. The company also agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine (largest ever in the state of Mississippi), which is roughly 5 times the original base amount, for the actions of one human resources manager. Clearly, there was some wrong-doing here, but what exactly did the company do (or fail to do) to earn such a dubious distinction within the state of Mississippi? Let’s take a trip down memory lane.

The Nation’s Largest Workplace Immigration Raid

On August 25, 2008, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in consultation with the US Attorneys’ office raided the company’s manufacturing plant in Laurel, Mississippi and arrested 595 workers who were believed to be undocumented. Approximately 475 of these workers were sent to a detention center and most of them were later deported (few were convicted on identity theft charges). Meanwhile, the company repeatedly denied allegations that it had knowingly hired individuals without work authorization, putting all of the blame on its human resources manager, Jose Humberto Gonzalez, who was later charged in a 25-count indictment with conspiracy and employee verification fraud.