Skyrocketing citizenship backlog — politics at play?

Authors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-25-2019

Publisher

The Hill

Language

en-US

Abstract

In 1952, at the height of McCarthyism, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld legislation that rendered deportable former members of the Communist Party. The plaintiffs at the center of the case, Peter Harisiades, Luigi Mascitti and Dora Coleman, had lived as lawful permanent residents in the United States for over 30 years, and they challenged on due process and other grounds the notion that they could be kicked out of the United States on their political allegiance alone.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Skyrocketing citizenship backlog — politics at play? , in The Hill (2019).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/113

Publisher URL

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/407716-skyrocketing-citizenship-backlog-politics-at-play