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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Immigration enforcement"”.
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Immigration Enforcement and Student Outcomes
<p>During the past 20 years, immigration enforcement increased dramatically in the U.S. interior. There is a growing recognition that immigration enforcement in the U.S. interior has spillover effects onto U.S. citizens, particularly the family of unauthorized immigrants. U.S. citizen children in …
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Beyond policy: ethical considerations of immigration enforcement & policies
… healthcare. This thesis argues that contemporary immigrations enforcement policies, rhetoric, and media coverage have created a state of immense fear and uncertainty that deter undocumented immigrants from seeking healthcare despite legal protections to be seen in the emergency department. In this …
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Localizing immigration enforcement: “secure communities,” § 287(g) and Arizona law 1070
… and the similar 287(g) Program of the Immigration and Nationality Act place the U.S. federal government into enforcement relationships with local and state officials. An effect of these relationships is that states acquire more authority over federal immigration policy. In this thesis I …
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DOES PRESIDENTIAL POLICY CHANGE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT? DOCUMENTING THE SEVERITY OF ALLEGED OFFENCES BY ICE IMMIGRATION ARRESTEES IN THE OBAMA AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONS
The federated nature of U.S. immigration enforcement invites tensions between levels of government, which both cooperate and clash with each other. A hierarchical description would claim that states and localities are responsive to federal authority, yet this presumes that federal agencies …
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The Impact Of Immigration Policies On Local Enforcement, Crime And Policing Efficiency
Following a period of increasing immigration enforcement under George W. Bush's administration, the Obama administration reversed immigration policies and issued strict new guidelines to relax enforcement in 2011. The purpose of this paper is to exploit this natural experiment in the enforcement of …
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Local Law Enforcement and Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives 2007-2021
Local Law Enforcement and Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives (2007-2021) Tonya D. Chapman ABSTRACT The Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) authorized the U.S. Immigration …
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Moving out of the Shadows: Resistance and Representation in the Struggle for Migrant Rights
… incapacitation as resistance to regimes of immigration enforcement and as contestation of US claims to sovereignty. Immigration enforcement depends upon the policing and subsequent restriction of migrants’ movement. These regimes of enforcement crossing multiple scales serve as a dragnet, …
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KIDS IN CAGES: THE FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY AND ITS HUMAN CONSEQUENCES
… the impacts—physical, mental, and emotional—of immigration detention on children and explores how immigration officials could use immigration resources more efficiently. It collates expert legal and medical opinions on detaining children and separating them from their families in an immigration …
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Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008)
… 6 million people monitored by the prison and immigration enforcement complex in the US, a little over 4 million, or 70%, are under community supervision. If we narrow in on the nearly 350,000 people being monitored by the immigration system, the figure goes up to 93%. Yet, most studies on …
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Mapping the denial of space : Latinos and United States immigration law
Immigration legal spaces such as courtrooms and national borders are constructed by the geopolitical tensions that exist between U.S. nationalism and foreign bodies traversing its territory. Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, and Hondurans—referred to as Latinos in this research—constitute nearly …
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Being in Transit: Life, Death, and the Politics of Migrant Journeys from Central America to the United States
… a dense landscape of hardening borders and immigration enforcement in Mexico and the U.S. while encountering incredible dangers along the way, such as assault, extortion, kidnapping, robbery, and murder. This dissertation argues that migration journeys and the places between origin and …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… impact of Secure Communities (SC)—a large U.S. immigration enforcement program—on the native earnings and wage distributions. Previous studies found that SC activation reduces the labor supply of likely undocumented immigrants by about 7% (East et al., 2020). Using unconditional quantile …
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Essays in immigration economics
… second essay introduces a novel instrument for immigration, which is the predicted number of immigrants from the push factors of origin countries that induce emigration. The construction of the instrument uses the fact that when a push factor “raises the tide of immigration” from a country of …
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The effect of media bias on legislation: a case study of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 on immigration
… Bill 1070, Arizona's bill to combat illegal immigration. The purpose of this study was to (a) examine whether the media coverage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 initiated government action and (b) examine whether the media coverage presented emotional or legal arguments supporting or not …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… think tanks, and the agencies that work in the immigration and border enforcement realm admit poverty and violence may underlie some decisions to migrate, they instead blame lax U.S. immigration policies, incorrect perceptions of U.S. immigration policy, and the exploitation of immigration …