Escalating Jailhouse Immigration Enforcement: A Report on Detainers Issued by ICE Against Persons held by Local Law Enforcement Agencies in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina from 2016-2018

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Sreenivasan ◽  
Jason A. Cade ◽  
Azadeh Shahshahani
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law

Racializing Crimmigration

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amada Armenta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Jail ◽  
Colorblind Ideology ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Local Law

Deporting “criminal aliens” has become the highest priority in American immigration enforcement. Today, most deportations are achieved through the “crimmigration” system, a term that describes the convergence of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Emerging research argues that U.S. immigration enforcement is a “racial project” that subordinates and racializes Latino residents in the United States. This article examines the role of local law enforcement agencies in the racialization process by focusing on the techniques and logics that drive law enforcement practices across two agencies, I argue that local law enforcement agents racialize Latinos by punishing illegality through their daily, and sometimes mundane, practices. Investigatory traffic stops put Latinos at disproportionate risk of arrest and citation, and processing at the local jail subjects unauthorized immigrants to deportation. Although a variety of local actors sustain the deportation system, most do not see themselves as active participants in immigrant removal and they explain their behavior through a colorblind ideology. This colorblind ideology obscures and naturalizes how organizational practices and laws converge to systematically criminalize and punish Latinos in the United States.

scholarly journals Where Immigration Enforcement Agreements Stalled: The Location of Local 287(g) Program Applications and Inquiries (2005-2012)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pedroza
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Freedom Of Information Act ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law

This document includes a list of local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) that submitted applications and inquiries to the federal government regarding the 287(g) immigration enforcement program. The information described in this document was originally obtained and shared via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) – first by Justin Cox and later by William Rosales. In preparing this document, I have reviewed and requested copies of the documents from DHS and have compared information obtained in documents obtained by Cox and Rosales. Corrections to the information below will be included in update versions of this document, which will be noted on the title page.

An Exploratory Study of Local Homeland Security Preparedness

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
William V. Pelfrey
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Local Agencies

As an artifact of the war on terror, local law enforcement agencies have been asked to serve as the “eyes and ears” of federal intelligence agencies. The federal Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has assembled a set of guidelines to assist agencies in terrorism prevention and weapons of mass destruction identification. However, there is a dearth of metrics and measurement tools available to assess preparedness. Based on ODP guidelines, a methodology to tap preparedness levels is defined. Additionally, preliminary findings from an assessment of a large law enforcement agency are presented. Application of this methodology will enhance the preparedness of local agencies by identifying areas of strength and those areas which require attention. Once these deficit areas are defined, policy makers can define appropriate training and programmatic changes.

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