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1 Suppose you had lost your farm and had traveled to California in the 1930s in search of a better life. What would you have done if confronted by the LAPD at the border, or if a friend or relative of yours had been charged under the California law for helping you come to the state?

2 What are the similarities and differences between California’s effort to secure its borders with Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon in the 1930s and today’s efforts to secure the southern border between the United States and Mexico?

3 Is there ever an instance in which a state might be justified in using its police powers to exclude someone from entering the state? If not, why? If so, when?

4 It is easy to dismiss Mayor of the City of New York v. Miln and the 1937 California law as relics of their time. But what about more recent anti-vagrancy statutes enacted by some cities to counter their burgeoning homeless populations? Are they problematic?