UCLA faculty experts advisory: Supreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law

The high court, while striking down a provision of the law that makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to work, upheld a provision allowing police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop. UCLA has experts on immigration and the Supreme Court.

 

 

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, is a regularly cited expert on immigration and immigrants in the United States. He has written and spoken widely on a variety of immigration-related subjects, including trade, investment and migration between the U.S., Mexico and Latin America; the labor market for Latinos in the U.S.; and international political economy.

Media contact:

Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu

 

Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law, is an expert on immigration and citizenship law. He has written extensively on the subject, served as co-counsel on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress.

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

 

Otto Santa Ana, an associate professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, is a sociolinguist who studies how language constructs social hierarchies, particularly regarding Latino communities. He is the co-editor of the 2012 anthology "Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media and Provincial Politics," which focused on Arizona's immigration politics.

 

David Hernández, an assistant professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has studied the history of the detention of immigrants in the United States and how increases in such detentions are linked to the growth of racial inequality and xenophobia. He also researches international migration and Chicano and Latino politics and social movements.

Media contact:

Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu

  

Jorge Bravo, assistant professor of political science and an adviser at the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, is an expert on Mexican politics, Mexican society and Mexico–U.S. relations.

Media contacts:

Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

Abel Valenzuela, an associate professor of urban planning and Chicano studies and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, is a regularly cited expert on immigration issues and day laborers. His he has written and spoken widely on the impact of immigration in urban neighborhoods and the experiences of minority groups in the labor market.

Media contacts:

Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

Kelly Lytle Hernández, an associate professor of history and associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is an authority on the history and politics of immigration and emigration, particularly between the United States and Mexico. She is the author of "Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol."

Media contacts:

Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

 

Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized expert on the Supreme Court.

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

Jonathan Varat, professor of law, is an authority on constitutional law, the Supreme Court, federal courts and the separation of powers. He is co-author of the major constitutional law casebook "Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials."

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

 

Adam Winkler, professor of law, is a specialist in American constitutional law whose scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. His research has focused on an array of topics, including judicial independence and constitutional interpretation.

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu