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

Armenta, Amada

ISBN 10: 0520296303 / ISBN 13: 9780520296305

Published by Univ of California Pr, 2017

About this Item

160 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Protect, Serve, and Deport The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520296303
• ISBN 13: 9780520296305
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.33 kilograms

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Synopsis

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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 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.

 

About the Author

Amada Armenta is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.