Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520296303 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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In vivid detail it unpacks the subtleties, intricacies, and contradictions of the job. It is essential, critical, urgent reading today.”—Cecilia Menjívar, author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala . Epp, coauthor of Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship “This engaging, fine-grained ethnography takes us into the world of those charged with enforcing immigration laws. This is painful but essential reading.”—Charles R. How do they feel about the deportation implications of their work? Amada Armenta answers this question by looking closely at what officers are doing in Nashville, Tennessee, a ci
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. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, the UC Press open access publishing program. Visit luminosoa to learn more.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