Immigration Policies and Access to the Justice System: The Effect of Enforcement Escalations on Undocumented Immigrants and Their Communities

This study investigates the association between undocumented immigration and crime among youthful offenders. Using official record and self-reported offending measures collected across seven-waves of data from the longitudinal Crossroads Study, the prevalence and variety of offending are compared for undocumented immigrant, documented immigrant, and US-born groups during the transition into young adulthood. Results suggest that, as compared to documented immigrants and US-born peers, undocumented immigrants report engaging in less crime prior to and following their first arrest. Conversely, official records reflect a marginally higher level of re-arrest among undocumented immigrants, particularly in the months immediately following the first arrest. This divergence in findings warrants focused consideration to disentangle whether the difference is due to differential involvement in crime, differential treatment in the justice system, or a combination of factors. Additional research is needed to test whether the results found in this study generalize to other immigrant groups and contexts.

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Trump, Snakes and the Power of Fables

Informal Logic ◽

10.22329/il.v38i1.4959 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 53-83

Author(s):

Katharina Stevens

Keyword(s):

Central America ◽

Undocumented Immigrants ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

Human Beings ◽

Donald Trump ◽

Complex Situation ◽

Political Argumentation ◽

Effective Choice ◽

The Moment

At a recent rally, Donald Trump resumed a habit he had developed during his election-rallies and read out the lyrics to a song. It tells the Aesopian fable of The Farmer and the Snake: A half frozen snake is taken in by a kind-hearted person but bites them the moment it is revived. Trump tells the fable to make a point about Islamic immigrants and undocumented immigrants from Southern and Central America: He claims the immigrants will cause problems and much stricter immigration-policies are needed. I assume that Trump treats the fable as an argumentative device for supporting his stance on immigration. He uses it as a source-analogue both for the conclusion that immigrants will cause problems and for changing the frame in which immigrants and those willing to let them enter are seen. This gives me opportunity to examine the effect fables have as argumentative devices. Fables are a popular and effective choice for political argumentation. They are slimmed down, semi-abstract narratives, well suited for directing the audience's attention to a few properties of an otherwise complex situation. However, this also makes it easy to use them for manipulating an audience into oversimplifying complex contexts and stereotyping human beings.

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Ethical Challenges: Oncologists' Role in Immigrant Health Care

Journal of Oncology Practice ◽

10.1200/jop.000129 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (5) ◽

pp. 247-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Victoria A. Jepson ◽

John V. Cox ◽

Jeffrey Peppercorn

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Medical Ethics ◽

Immigrant Health ◽

Undocumented Immigrants ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Ethics Guidelines

As health care and immigration policies evolve, oncologists may be faced with challenges regarding care for undocumented immigrants, and must stay abreast of changes in federal and state legal statutes as well as medical ethics guidelines.

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“Alone in a Crowd: Indigenous Migrants and Language Barriers in American Immigration”

Race and Justice ◽

10.1177/21533687211006448 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 215336872110064

Author(s):

Denise N. Obinna

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Justice System ◽

Due Process ◽

Linguistic Diversity ◽

Language Barriers ◽

Indigenous Languages ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

Native Languages ◽

Family Separation

Indigenous migrants in American custody often speak neither English nor Spanish. This leaves them at risk for family separation, deportation and due process violations. In this article, I discuss the challenges which indigenous migrants face in American immigration. Examining linguistic variations, this manuscript illustrates that American immigration policies have not adjusted to the linguistic diversity at the border—or in the immigration courts. Despite the growing number of indigenous migrants seeking asylum, most are assumed to speak only Spanish. This assumption neglects the wide linguistic diversity of immigrants and directly impacts their experience through the immigration bureaucracy. For indigenous migrants, linguicism or the exclusion of native languages can have life or death consequences—especially if they are unable to secure interpreters or relay crucial aspects of their case. As such, linguicism perpetuates an unequal justice system which fails to provide an understanding of the asylum process for those who speak indigenous languages.

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