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35 Berkeley Latine J.L. & Pol'y [i] (2025)

handle is hein.journals/berklarlj35 and id is 1 raw text is: December 2025 Dear Communidad, Volume 35 comes at a time where great anxiety, fear, and confusion casts a shadow on everyday life. The second Trump administration has painted a target on immigrant communities through a surge of violent ICE raids, the expansion of ICE detention centers, the deployment of the national guard into cities and neighborhoods, and a blatant disregard for due process. Little relief is found in our judiciary, as the Supreme Court has effectively validated racial profiling in Perdomo v. Noem, resulting in an alarming amount of U.S. citizens being detained. Executive orders dismantling diversity policies in government entities and private companies, coupled with book bans across military academies and schools, attempt to erase our histories of persecution and resistance. The Latine Journal ofLaw andPolicy (LJLP), formerly known as La Raza Law Journal, was born out of the same circumstances we face now. Forged by a group of Latine law students in 1981 who saw the need for a platform for Latine voices and issues, LJLP offers a forum for these discriminatory policies to be challenged and for charting a new path forward and through. This volume is not only a commentary on institutionalized marginalization and racism, but also a call to action. First, we begin with a Jurisprudence and Social Policy scholar's interdisciplinary tracing of the criminal, legal, and immigration systems in the United States, leading to the rise of crimmigration. Then, we learn from a Jailhouse Lawyer how the history of penology has prioritized punishment over rehabilitation, exacerbating the social cancer that is incarceration today. Next, a recent Berkeley Law graduate offers several cases to illuminate the barriers to bar admission specific to undocumented law students and calls for nationwide legislation that permits these individuals to obtain law licenses. Lastly, a law professor reckons with institutional racism by creating a framework for implementing an anti-racist pedagogy in legal education that would support minority students and ensure their access to necessary resources. These articles and authors came together in our annual symposium titled Uprooting Structural Racism, Planting New Seeds. Over six panels, our audience engaged in lively discussions with our authors, attorneys, law professors, law students, and social activists. By bringing together