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Government

Aug. 24, 2016

Alexander Hamilton, our founding foreigner

The Drumpfs' story reminds us that Alexander Hamilton was not a great founder of our nation in spite of his immigrant background but because of it. By Paul Stanton Kibel

Paul Stanton Kibel

professor of law
Golden Gate University School of Law

environmental law

536 Mission St
San Francisco , CA 94105-2921

Phone: (415) 442-6685

Email: pskibel@waterpowerlaw.com

Willamette Univ College of Law

Paul Stanton Kibel is a professor of law at Golden Gate University School of Law and author of "The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage." The author has worked with the United Nations Environment Programme on projects relating to international water, fisheries and ocean law

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By Paul Stanton Kibel

The topics of immigration and immigrants have been front and center in the presidential campaign. GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for restricting immigrants from Muslim countries, constructing a wall along the length of the Mexico-United States border, and questioned whether a federal judge of Mexican heritage can preside impartially over a pending case.

As the debate over immigrants and immigration u...

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