TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armenta,Amada
TI  - Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement 
SN  - 9780520296305
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Law / Forensic Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Law / Criminal Law
KW  - Social Science / Sociology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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 immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/0408e53e-a958-4f2b-a316-59b803d0f6c1
ER  -