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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.
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.
Price: $12.99
Pages: 212
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
26 June 2017
ISBN: 9780520968868
Format: eBook
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Who Polices Immigration?
2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime
3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville
4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing
5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal
6. Punishing Illegality
Conclusion
Appendix: Fieldwork FAQs
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Who Polices Immigration?
2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime
3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville
4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing
5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal
6. Punishing Illegality
Conclusion
Appendix: Fieldwork FAQs
Notes
References
Index