Opis: Policing Immigrants - Scott Decker, Paul Lewis, Monica Varsanyi

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being deporter in chief. Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that was created long before his election. Deportation numbers have actually been on the rise since 1996, when two federal statutes sought to delegate a portion of the responsibilities for immigration enforcement to local authorities. "Policing Immigrants" traces the transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system of local policing that extends throughout the country s interior. Since federal authorities set local law enforcement to the task of bringing suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government s attention, local responses have varied. While some localities have resisted the work, others have aggressively sought out unauthorized immigrants, often seeking to further their own objectives by putting their own stamp on immigration policing. Tellingly, how a community responds can best be predicted not by conditions like crime rates or the state of the local economy but rather by the level of conservatism among local voters. What has resulted, the authors argue, is a system that is neither just nor effective one that threatens the core crime-fighting mission of policing by promoting racial profiling, creating fear in immigrant communities, and undermining the critical community-based function of local policing." This timely book exposes the ragged edges of federalism. What many in Washington think is a federal problem calling for national solutions has become an inward-looking and highly varied set of practices reflecting local priorities and politics. These play themselves out differently everywhere, leaving migrants caught up in this morass to an uncertain fate. What is certain is that this political struggle is far from over. This important book should play a major role in clarifying the magnitude of the contradictions that are at work in the immigration debate. --Wesley G. Skogan, author of Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities"

Szczegóły: Policing Immigrants - Scott Decker, Paul Lewis, Monica Varsanyi

Tytuł: Policing Immigrants
Autor: Scott Decker, Paul Lewis, Monica Varsanyi
Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226363189
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 208
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.27 kg

Recenzje: Policing Immigrants - Scott Decker, Paul Lewis, Monica Varsanyi