In Priorities and the State of Implicit Bias in Crimmigration posted today on Regulatory review, Carrie Rosenbaum writes that:

“The modern civil rights movement has brought greater attention to the question of racial justice and the criminal justice system.

Although the role of race in immigration law has received less political and public attention, legal scholars have long written about it. For at least two decades, scholars have addressed the way that implicit bias endemic to the criminal justice system seeps into the immigration removal machinery, particularly with respect to removals of individuals of Mexican and Central American descent—or Latinos.

Today, criminality remains a primary filtering mechanism that still imports the biases embedded in the criminal justice system, despite increased awareness of the problem of race in policing.

Immigration enforcement practices that rely on the criminal justice system import the systemic biases of that system.”

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This essay is part of a seven-part series titled Race and Regulation.

KJ