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56 UC Davis L. Rev. Online 1 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/usdlro56 and id is 1 raw text is: UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW ONLINE VOL 56NOVEMB ER 2022 ESSAY In Defense of Deportation Defense Michael Kagan* Recent years have seen growing momentum toward expanding public funding for legal defense of immigrants fighting deportation. Yet, some recent scholarship argues that government-funded deportation defense carries the risk of legitimizing and entrenching an unsalvageable immigration enforcement system that should simply be abolished. As a result, immigrant rights advocates might hesitate to support deportation defense. This Essay argues that such hesitation would be a mistake. Legal defense is the most feasible means available right now to stop many deportations, and expanding deportation defense resources will strengthen the immigrant rights movement locally and nationally. Expanding deportation defense should be a high priority for local and national immigrant rights advocates over the short- and medium-term future. Copyright © 2022 Michael Kagan. Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and Director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic. I thank Laura Barrera, Linus Chan, Jennifer Lee Koh, and Diane Uchimaya for feedback and critique on earlier drafts. I am especially grateful for engaging discussions with Angdlica Chazaro and Laila Hlass. 1