Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement

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Title

Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement

Subject

Social sciences

Description

Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.

Creator

Armenta, Amada

Source

http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31302

Publisher

University of California Press

Date

2017

Contributor

Siti Muzaroh

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

10.1525/luminos.33

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