In a new article, immigration law scholar Ingrid V. Eagly argues that Arizona changed the face of immigration policing before the state legislature enacted the infamous SB 1070. Ingrid V. Eagly, Local Immigration Prosecution: A Study of Arizona Before SB 1070, 58 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1749 (2011). Eagly, a professor at U.C.L.A. School of Law, focuses on a state anti-smuggling statute, Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 13-2319, enacted in 2005 and its zealous use by local prosecutors against immigrants to argue that “Arizona has already altered federal power over immigration through its control over crime.” [...]
Report: Racial profiling & immigration enforcement in Tennessee
A coalition of Tennessee immigrants’ rights activists issued a report alleging discriminatory targeting of immigrants in Bedford County, a rural county south of Nashville. Sarah White & Salmun Kazerounian, The Forgotten Constitution: Racial Profiling and Immigration Enforcement in Bedford County, Tennessee (Sept. 2011). The report’s authors assert that “To be an immigrant or refugee in Bedford County is to be treated with suspicion or outright hostility by one’s own government, whose offices still exhibit vestiges of the overt racial apartheid of years past.” White & Kazerounian at [...]
GAO: States pay most cost of imprisoning immigrants in state jails
The U.S. Government Accountability Office recently reported that most of the cost of imprisoning “criminal aliens” in state prisons systems was paid by state governments. GAO, Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs (March 2011 GAO-11-187). [A summary in html is also available.] States, cities, and counties are partially reimbursed for the costs of incarcerating noncitizens who meet specified criteria through the Justice Department’s State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). Importantly, “SCAAP is not intended to reimburse state and local [...]
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