SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Border Control
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Returns: people informally put on buses back across the border with no permanent mark on immigration record. Removals: formal deportation with officer or judge that goes on permanent record. Most removals occur along the border for those trying to enter us ( in 2013) For those removed from the interior, many have committed some type of crime in 2013) Many others are related to crossing the border (if you were formally removed previously and are caught again, it is considered a crime) Ice set internal quota in 2010 to deport 400,000 people a year. Reason why obama has been named the deporter of state . The average cost to deport someone is ,500 a person. This has cost roughly billion since obama took office. Policy shifts over last three decades arming soldiers and building walls. In order to successfully apprehend immigrants there is a greater use of surveillance technology. Spending more money per person to deport (inverse relationship)
