Everyone believes that immigration law has been exceptional since its late nineteenth-century birth—insulated from judicial review by the Court’s creation of the “plenary power doctrine.” But early immigration law was actually ordinary public law. Recovering this reality has profound implications for scholars of immigration and public law alike.

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移民例外论的发明

每个人都认为，移民法自 19 世纪末诞生以来就一直是例外的——由于最高法院创立了“全权原则”，它与司法审查隔绝。但早期的移民法实际上是普通的公法。恢复这一现实对移民和公法学者都有深远的影响。