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Author Armenta, Amada, 1982- author.

Title Protect, serve, and deport : the rise of policing as immigration enforcement / Amada Armenta
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Who polices immigration? : establishing the role of state and local law enforcement agencies in immigration control -- Setting up the local deportation regime -- Policing immigrant Nashville -- The driving to deportation pipeline -- Inside the jail -- Lost in translation : two worlds of immigration policing
Summary "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 removable immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging."--Provided by publisher
Analysis citizenship
criminals
deportation
federal deportation system
immigration enforcement program
immigration officers
institutional policies
jail employees
jail
latino residents
latinx
law enforcement
local immigration enforcement
local police
local politics
minor violations
nashville
police practices
police
race
racism
removable immigrants
state laws
tennessee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Immigration enforcement -- Tennessee -- Nashville
Noncitizens -- Government policy -- United States
Latin Americans -- Tennessee -- Nashville
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Immigration enforcement
Latin Americans
Noncitizens -- Government policy
SUBJECT Nashville (Tenn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Subject Tennessee -- Nashville
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017014271
ISBN 0520968867
9780520968868