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Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery
Release of a major report that describes and analyzes the immigration enforcement system in the United States as it has developed and grown in the quarter century since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 launched the current era of enforcement.
Immigration Federalism: Which Policy Prevails?
Neighboring and overlapping U.S. jurisdictions have adopted conflicting immigration enforcement policies, leaving immigrants uncertain which rules apply.
9th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
The conference features discussion on current immigration policy issues by senior officials from U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, immigration law experts, state officials, and immigration advocates.
Making It Work: Lessons in Collaboration on Language Access Contracting
A webinar on language access contracting for federal, state, and local officials, agency administrators, and community stakeholders concerned with the oversight and implementation of language access provision.
Platforms and Conventions Reveal Deep Divide on Immigration Between GOP, Dems
U.S. Republican and Democratic platforms in 2012 differed sharply on DACA, state enforcement, and unauthorized immigration.
Long-Term Impact of the Supreme Court Ruling on Key Provision of Arizona's SB 1070 May Hinge on Political Calculus
Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court rules on SB 1070, the long-term impact may depend less on law than on who wins the November presidential election.
Immigration Enforcement in the United States
U.S. apprehensions fell to a 38-year low in 2010.
Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement
MPI Report release with authors MPI's Randy Capps and Muzaffar Chishti examining step localities are taking in enforcing immigration law and the possible impacts on communities. Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, and Captain LeRoy Kirkegard, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, provided comments.
States Assert New Activist Immigration Role in Altered Political Landscape
The 2010 U.S. elections spurred more than 20 states to pursue efforts modeled after Arizona’s SB 1070 and a coordinated push to challenge birthright citizenship.
Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement
A study of the 287(g) program found that local police often used their delegated immigration powers to hold people for minor offenses, raising concerns about racial profiling.