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48 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 779 (2015-2016)
Bridging the Confluence of Water and Immigration Law

handle is hein.journals/text48 and id is 819 raw text is: BRIDGING THE CONFLUENCE OF WATER AND IMMIGRATION LAW Tom 1. Romero, Il I. INTRODUCTION .................................................. 780 II. THE IRRIGATION ERA AND THE NEED FOR A DOCILE LABOR SUPPLY .................................................... 782 III. THE METROPOLITAN REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE ILLEGAL GARDNER............... ............................. ..... 798 IV. THE GREAT LOCAL THIRST FOR PROPER DOCUMENTATION............ 807 V. CONCLUSION ............................................... 815 APPENDIX: A TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN WATER AND IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY.................................. 817 Immigration plays a key role in our growing water crisis because it is responsible for two-thirds of U.S. population growth. The 1.5 million immigrants who move to America each year place an ever-increasing burden on our national water supply. We should not fault recent immigrants for [Editor's Note: This Article updates and expands upon the Author's work in the following articles: A War to Keep Alien Labor out of Colorado : The Mexican Menace and the Historical Origins ofLocal and State Anti-Immigration Initiatives, in STRANGE NEIGHBORS: THE ROLE OF STATES IN IMMIGRATION POLICY 63 (Carissa Byrne Hessick & Gabriel J. Chin eds., 2014); Land, Culture, and Legal Exchange in Colorado's Mountains, Plains, and Deserts, in EXCHANGE: PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS 125 (2005); Bound Between & Beyond the Borderlands: Region, Race, Scale and a Subnational Legal History, 9 OR. REV. INT'L L. 301 (2007); The Color of Water: Observations ofa Brown Buffalo on Water Law and Policy in Ten Stanzas, 15 DENV. L. REv. 329 (2012); The Keyes to Reclaiming the Racial History of the Roberts Court, 20 MICH. J. RACE & L. 415 (2015); No Brown Towns: Anti-Immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os, 12 J. GENDER, RACE & JUST., no. 1, 2008. Any analysis provided herein originally appearing in the Author's prior work is presented without direct attribution.] * J.D., Ph.D, Associate Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and Affiliate Faculty, Department of History & Assistant Provost of IE Research and Curricular Initiatives, University of Denver. I want to thank Joseph Norris and Jana Houghteling for invaluable research as we collectively began to examine the connection between water and immigration law in my previous scholarship. I first began to formulate and to refine these connections at the Association of American Law School's summer Workshop on Poverty, Immigration and Property in 2013 and the University of Michigan Law School's Legal History Workshop in Fall 2015. My colleagues in the University of Denver's Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place, and Law in the College of Law have provided support for this project in countless and invaluable ways. The close readings, critical feedback, and enthusiastic encouragement by all of the workshop participants and my colleagues made me realize both the importance and the scope of this project. I hope this Article, which attempts to connect the dots to many of our collective conversations and is an entry to a much larger project, is faithful to all of your wisdom and feedback. Finally, I want to highlight the outstanding work and efforts of the members of the Texas Tech Law Review. They did an outstanding job editing this Article and put on a tremendous live symposium on the future of water law. 779