One cannot start a discussion of those who seek to belong without first knowing what belonging is. So, in this casebook, the authors start with citizenship. Their theme is membership, and that theme is reflected throughout. Significant changes include deleting the chapter on the concept of "entry," folding the relief from deportation chapter into a general chapter on grounds of deportability, adding the judicial review materials to a new chapter on removal procedures, and creating a new chapter on undocumented immigration.
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff (born 1952) is a law professor and former dean at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He specializes in immigration policy and has written a number of books on the topic.
a useful introduction back when it came out. the statute hasn't changed since then, but of course the trump years changed the practical aspects, insofar as far right mysticism was smuggled into the enforcement apparatus.