In the United States, immigrants and immigration policy are complex and multi-faceted, with persons of different legal status, visa categories, and national origins. Despite this complexity, media coverage and Congressional debate has focused inordinately on the issue of undocumented (or...

Is there any objective legal ground – objective in the sense that it can be recognized as legitimate as a matter of jurisprudence even by lawyers and judges trained in the Common Law tradition – for the Chinese objection to the Statement? It is the purpose of this essay to demonstrate that a...

The growing number of irregular migrant workers, i.e. unlawfully or lawfully present foreigners who engage in employment although not legally authorized to do so, poses a challenge for national social security policy. The challenge is twofold. First, irregular work by foreigners is usually...