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Policing Immigrants (Paperback)
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The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants
during the first five years of the Obama presidency--more than
during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused
by activists of being "deporter in chief." Yet despite efforts to
rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet
been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation,
and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that was
created long before his election. Deportation numbers have actually
been on the rise since 1996, when two federal statutes sought to
delegate a portion of the responsibilities for immigration
enforcement to local authorities. Policing Immigrants traces the
transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal
power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system
of local policing that extends throughout the country's interior.
Since federal authorities set local law enforcement to the task of
bringing suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government's
attention, local responses have varied. While some localities have
resisted the work, others have aggressively sought out unauthorized
immigrants, often seeking to further their own objectives by
putting their own stamp on immigration policing. Tellingly, how a
community responds can best be predicted not by conditions like
crime rates or the state of the local economy but rather by the
level of conservatism among local voters. What has resulted, the
authors argue, is a system that is neither just nor effective--one
that threatens the core crime-fighting mission of policing by
promoting racial profiling, creating fear in immigrant communities,
and undermining the critical community-based function of local
policing.
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