No State Power: Critiquing the Eighth Circuit’s Preemption Analysis

This note contends that federal law should preempt state and local laws that regulate where undocumented immigrants may reside within the United States. In Keller v. City of Fremont, the Eight Circuit recently upheld a local ordinance prohibiting undocumented immigrants from renting housing within the boundaries of the city of Fremont. Though the U.S. Supreme…