MHS-2320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: California Proposition 187
27 Feb 2019
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Gaps in the books v in action - law is transgressed routinely and without consequence. Sometimes selective non enforcement - vagrancy (not having a job) racist - convict labor system=slavery. Anti-loitering laws used to break up protests - loitering laws judged racistly. Targeting kinds of people - not actual criminal activity. More aa imprisoned for drug - author wants federal law about crack offenders to change. Unequal enforcement of what appear to be racially neutral drug laws. Laws that are neutral on their face are applied disparately. The criminalization of certain kinds of people. Also illegal lodging and anti camping against homeless people. Sitting at the fault line of a structural contradiction between the economic demand for cheap immigrant labor and political demands for border control - backlash from their employers. Braceros as example of circumventing on-the law books. Employer sanctions have plummeted s as example of circumventing on-the law books.
