Harvard Law Review on Policing Immigrant Communities
The Harvard Law Review’s April 2015 Developments in the Law is on policing. It includes a section on “Policing Immigrant Communities,” which is authored by student editors of the Review Here is a brief description of the section.
While immigration enforcement was once an exclusively federal prerogative, state and local police possess unprecedented power over immigrant communities. They enforce civil and criminal laws governing migration; police exercise — through their enforcement power — significant discretion over which otherwise lawful immigrants will be deported. This Note identifies an accountability deficit in the policing of immigrant communities and offers immigration-enforcement consolidation as a way to close the deficit.
KJ
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