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Michael Kagan

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Michael Kagan is the Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is the director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, which defends children and families fighting deportation in Las Vegas. He has lived in Las Vegas, the setting for The Battle to Stay in America, since 2011.

Kagan began working with refugees in Cairo, Egypt, in 1998, while he was still in law school. He spent the first decade of his career building legal aid programs for refugees throughout the Middle East and Asia, and lived in London, Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem.

In 2019, Kagan was a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits that prevented the Trump administration from including a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

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	The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Michael Kagan: I Was There When It Happened by Michael Kagan (Goodreads Author) (Artist), Pharrell Williams (Foreword), Bill Powers (Primary Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Experiencing Professional Responsibility (Experiencing Law Series) by Michael Maslanka, Michael Kagan (Goodreads Author), Nancy Dao 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“These are the layers of our country, those we see and those we don’t.”
― Michael Kagan, The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line

tags: immigration

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“‪“This is a story about two bloody feet, and how the sight of them changed a young couple’s plans. ... It’s about fine dining, a bicycle, burritos at midnight, and a girl who dreamed of being a dancer. This is a Las Vegas story.”‬”
― Michael Kagan, The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line

tags: current-affairs, immigration, memoir, nonfiction

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“So much depends on cheap paper.”
― Michael Kagan, The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line

tags: immigration

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