
Volume 29 Issue 1
Fall 2022 Articles
Notes
Calli Schmitt
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”) is a form of immigration relief created by Congress to protect vulnerable noncitizen children. This protection offers a path to lawful permanent residency for juveniles who the courts determine have a history of abuse, neglect, or abandonment by one or both parents; and who are in the United States without lawful immigration status. Most other forms of immigration relief are adjudicated by a federal immigration agency, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”). However, SIJS involves an additional unique step where the juvenile must ask a state court to make factual determinations on their history of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The juvenile cannot proceed with their Special Immigrant Juvenile (“SIJ”) petition and apply for relief from USCIS until the child obtains...
Hannah R. Kramer
For decades, advocates have highlighted a public education system fraught with inequality and mistreatment of students of color. This long-standing plight is chiefly apparent in special education classrooms today, where minority groups are frequently routed at a higher rate than their white peers. Scholar Lloyd Dunn was one of the first to address the correlation between special education and students of color. In a 1968 essay, Dunn determined that between sixty and eighty percent of students in the United States’ “mild mental retardation classes”—Dunn used this phrase at the time to reference the intellectually disabled—were low-income or students of color.5 In another work published the same year, Dunn criticized the placement of students, many of whom came from culturally or socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, into special education...
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