Backdrop of significant civil rights advancement in the United States including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965, ten years on the heels of brown versus board of education. So, what is the lesson we can draw . One is that the Immigration Law for the future in our current push for comprehensive Immigration Reform should also take that frame of a civil rights legislation which is the civil rights project of our time and will continue to be as long as we do not as long as we avoid addressing this problem of illicit mess and reality. Just a word or two to build on that. He has nicely framed this question of again. But, and i think it really is the key, but in terms of if its fair to call Immigration Law a civil rights issue, ii would argue absolutely, in light of the types of mechanisms that have been deployed by the state against foreignborn persons and there are clear parallels between the experience of africanamericans, latinos, and other disadvantaged grou