Margot K. Mendelson

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Constructing America: Mythmaking in U.S. Immigration Courts

119 Yale L.J. 1012 (2010).  This Note argues that immigration courts have served and continue to serve as important sites for the perpetuation of national identity myths. By focusing on a subset of cases called “cancellation of removal,” I examine the functional criteria by which immigrants are granted exemption from deportation. Despite ostensibly neutral statutory standards, immigration courts give legal...