Immigration Enforcement Policies and Latinx Health: State of Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nolan Kline ◽  
Heide Castañeda
Keyword(s):  
Health State ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Enforcement Policies

scholarly journals An Expanded Analytical Gaze on Penal Power: Border Criminology and Punitiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose A. Brandariz
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Incarceration Rate ◽  
Academic Effort ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Migration Law ◽  
Enforcement Policies

Border criminology authors have recently called for an expansion of criminological conceptions on penal power to include migration law enforcement devices. An amplified analytical gaze on penality is critical to challenge mainstream notions of punitiveness—an academic effort that is particularly relevant because incarceration rates are declining in many Global North jurisdictions. This paper explores various implications of this border criminology contribution to academic debates on punitiveness by investigating the interrelation of incarceration rate changes with detention and deportation data. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning theoretical debate on the impact of immigration enforcement policies on current penal changes.

scholarly journals The unintended consequences of US immigration enforcement policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. e2103000118
Author(s):  
Emily Ryo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Enforcement Policies ◽  
Us Immigration

US immigration enforcement policy seeks to change the behaviors and views of not only individuals in the United States but also those of prospective migrants outside the United States. Yet we still know relatively little about the behavioral and attitudinal effects of US enforcement policy on the population abroad. This study uses a randomized experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey that was administered in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico to analyze the effects of US deterrence policies on individuals’ migration intentions and their attitudes toward the US immigration system. The two policies that the current study examines are immigration detention and nonjudicial removals. The survey results provide no evidence that a heightened awareness of these US immigration enforcement policies affects individuals’ intentions to migrate to the United States. But heightened awareness about the widespread use of immigration detention in the United States does negatively impact individuals’ assessments about the procedural and outcome fairness of the US immigration system. These findings suggest that immigration detention may foster delegitimating beliefs about the US legal system without producing the intended deterrent effect.

scholarly journals The Impact of Local Immigration Enforcement Policies on the Health of Immigrant Hispanics/Latinos in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D. Rhodes ◽  
Lilli Mann ◽  
Florence M. Simán ◽  
Eunyoung Song ◽  
Jorge Alonzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enforcement Policies

scholarly journals Backtalk

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Gándara
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Country Report ◽  
The Press ◽  
Enforcement Policies

Every day, newspapers across the country report on the human tragedies caused by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies: families being separated, neighborhoods ripped apart, children coming home to find their parents gone. However, the press rarely mentions the immense toll this is taking on the nation’s schools, their students, and the educators who work with them. A survey of educators sheds much-needed light on the situation.

Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession, and the Size of Local Mexican Immigrant Populations

2012 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio A. Parrado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enforcement Policies

This article relies on local area variation in immigration policies, specifically the local implementation of the 287(g) program, and economic conditions to estimate their impact on changes in the size of local Mexican immigrant populations between 2007 and 2009. The author also investigates the impact of the 287(g) program on the employment prospects of low-skilled native black and white workers. The study finds that outside of four influential outliers (Dallas, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Phoenix), there is no evidence that the 287(g) program impacted the size of the Mexican immigrant population. In addition, there is no evidence that immigration enforcement policies mitigated the negative impact of the economic recession on the native population, even in the four outliers where the program was strongly enforced. The author highlights the limited efficacy of immigration enforcement as a way to resolve the issue of the undocumented immigrant population and for altering the employment opportunities of native workers.

scholarly journals Reducing the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Policies to Ensure the Health of North Carolinians: Statewide Community-Level Recommendations

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mann ◽  
F. M. Siman ◽  
M. Downs ◽  
C. J. Sun ◽  
B. U. de Hernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Level ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
North Carolinians ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enforcement Policies

scholarly journals The Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Faith-Based Organizations: An Analysis of the FEER Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Kerwin ◽  
Mike Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Us ◽  
Faith Based Organizations ◽  
Enforcement Policies ◽  
Us Immigration

Executive Summary The effects of US immigration enforcement policies on immigrants, US families, and communities have been well documented. Less attention, however, has been paid to their impact on faith-based organizations (FBOs). Faith communities provide a spiritual home, and extensive legal, resettlement, social, health, and educational services, for refugees and immigrants. This report presents the findings of the FEER (Federal Enforcement Effect Research) Survey, which explored the effects of US immigration enforcement policies on immigrant-serving Catholic institutions.1 Many of these institutions arose in response to the needs of previous generations of immigrants and their children (Kerwin and George 2014, 14, 74–75). Most strongly identify with immigrants and have long served as crucial intermediaries between immigrant communities and the broader society (Campos 2014, 149–51).2 During its first two years, the Trump administration has consistently characterized immigrants as criminals, security risks, and an economic burden. Among its policy initiatives, the administration has supported major cuts in family-based immigration, attempted to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, reduced refugee admissions to historic lows, instituted admission bars on Muslim-majority countries, attempted to strip Temporary Protection Status (TPS) from all but a fraction of its beneficiaries, erected major new barriers to asylum, and proposed new rules regarding the public charge grounds of inadmissibility that would make it more difficult for poor and working-class persons to obtain permanent residence. US immigration enforcement policies have separated children from their parents, criminally prosecuted asylum seekers, expanded detention, increased arrests of noncitizens without criminal records, and militarized the US–Mexico border. These policies have failed to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers: instead, these flows have increased dramatically in recent months. These policies have succeeded, however, in devastating children, instilling fear in immigrant communities, blocking access to the US asylum system, and undermining immigrant integration (Kerwin 2018).3 The Federal Enforcement Effect Research (FEER) Survey points to a paradox. On one hand, US enforcement policies have increased the demand for services such as legal screening, representation, naturalization, assistance to unaccompanied minors, and support to the US families of detainees and deportees. Many Catholic institutions have expanded their services to accommodate the increased demand for their services. On the other hand, their work with immigrants has been impeded by federal immigration policies that effectively prevent immigrants from driving, attending gatherings, applying for benefits, and accessing services due to fear that these activities might lead to their deportation or the deportation of a family member. Among other top-line findings, 59 percent of 133 FEER respondents reported that “fear of apprehension or deportation” negatively affected immigrants’ access to their services, and 57 percent of 127 respondents reported that immigrant enforcement very negatively or negatively affected the participation of immigrants in their programs and ministries.

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