Overview
- The university’s course listing shows Legal Studies 132AC: Immigration and Citizenship scheduled for Spring 2026.
- Syllabi from Spring 2024 and 2025 frame immigration law through critical race theory, LGBTQ perspectives and anti-ICE activism, questioning the ‘nation of immigrants’ narrative.
- A dedicated session examines the Abolish ICE movement, assigning Sean McElwee’s “It’s time to abolish ICE” as required reading.
- Course modules probe how ideas of racial superiority shaped federal immigration law and include John Tehranian’s “Performing Whiteness” on legal constructions of whiteness.
- The class was taught by immigration-defense attorneys Christina Lee and Lisa Knox with ties to immigrant-legal nonprofits, and details publicized by Campus Reform were reported by Fox News and WSBT as the university did not immediately respond.