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

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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 ident...

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Main Author: Armenta, Amada (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2017
Subjects:
Sociology
Criminology: legal aspects
Criminal justice law
police
immigration
deportation
latinos
287(g)
immigration enforcement
Davidson County
Tennessee
Driver's license
Illegal immigration
Nashville
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (212 p.)
ISBN:luminos.33
9780520968868
Access:Open Access

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