CLUSTER 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Law
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Lecture 9 - crimmigration -- guest lecture irene. Concerned with preventing and addressing "harm to individuals" and society from violence or fraud or evil motive. Determines who may enter the us and live here. Who gets to live here and who has to leave. Signals the convergences of the two bodies of law. Immigration enforcement agencies resemble criminal law enforcement agencies. Crimmigration has become a primary mechanism of racialized exclusion of latinos. Latinoness is often equated with illegality and vice versa in public discourse and law. A "racial project or set of state structures and ideas about racial difference, sustains racialized practices and hierarchies. A gendered, racial removal program that targets working-class latino men. A mechanism for the creation of a latino underclass. The crimmigration system functions as an engine of racial subordination and membership exclusion. Institution that he was a part of that serves as a tool for the crimmigration system.
