Resisting Federal–Local Immigration Enforcement Partnerships: Redefining ‘Secure Communities’ and Public Safety

Strunk, Christopher; Leitner, Helga

doi:10.1080/21622671.2013.769894

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“…Evidence is also mixed on the effect of local enforcement on migration patterns: Watson (2013) found that Task Force Enforcement policies increased the outflow of non-citizens with some college education, Ellis, Wright and Townley (2016) found that hostile immigration policies (e.g., local immigration enforcement policies, E-Verify, access to driver's licenses) in a state reduced the inflow of non-citizen and naturalized Latinos in that state, whereas Parrado (2012) found that 287(g) did not affect the size of Mexican immigrant population in most localities except for large cities such as Dallas, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Phoenix, which registered a decline in the number of Mexican immigrants relative to other large cities without 287(g). In addition, research 3 Some localities resisted the implementation of SC (Chen, 2016;Strunk & Leitner, 2013), but such initiatives were not systematically and reliably documented for a national-level examination of their impacts. To the extent that such intentions are a permanent (time-invariant) feature of a locality (e.g., if a locality has a strong long term pro-or antiimmigrant environment), county fixed effects included in our analysis will control for it.…”

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang¹,

Kaushal²

2018

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We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies-Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC)-that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental health outcomes of Latino immigrants living in the United States. We use the restricted-use National Health Interview Survey for 2000-2012 and adopt a difference-indifference research design. Estimates suggest that SC increased the proportion of Latino immigrants with mental health distress by 2.2 percentage points (14.7 percent); Task Force Enforcement under Section 287(g) worsened their mental health distress scores by 15 percent (0.08 standard deviation); Jail Enforcement under Section 287(g) increased the proportion of Latino immigrants reporting fair or poor health by 1 percentage point (11.1 percent) and lowered the proportion reporting very good or excellent health by 4.8 to 7.0 percentage points (7.8 to 10.9 percent). These findings are robust across various sensitivity checks.

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang¹,

Kaushal²

2018

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“…The disgust with federal inaction and fear over the looming threat of Arizona-style legislation provided the necessary context facilitating unity across groups that are unaccustomed to working together. While previous research has shown group activity leading to resistance to restrictive immigration policy at the local level (Strunk and Leitner 2013), such collective action has not taken place in as deeply conservative a context as the state of Utah. By providing a qualitative perspective on the motivation and promotion of the Utah Compact, our research illustrates the inner-workings crucial to altering the dominant narrative on immigration.…”

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“…Yet, the failure to pass any significant reform at the federal level indicates that creating a policy narrative that generates bipartisan support and policy change remains a challenge. However, limited meso level research indicates that several successful policy battles have taken place at the local level (Strunk and Leitner 2013;Walker and Leitner 2011). In most instances, these examples appear to rely on interest group cooperation in the face of an unfavorable status quo thereby achieving policy success (Robbins 2010).…”

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Bringing Them “Out of the Shadows”: Analyzing the Movement to Reframe the Immigration Policy Narrative in Utah

Jacobs¹,

Keister²,

Glass³

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The U.S. has approximately 11.5 million undocumented immigrants residing within its borders. Yet, the federal government has been unable to pass legislation addressing this issue. However, in 2010, an ideologically diverse group of individuals in Utah came together to craft a policy narrative they hoped would inform future immigration reform. These individuals held leadership roles in a variety of economic, political, sociocultural, and religious organizations resulting in The Utah Compact. Our research asks: Under what conditions did this group reframe the policy narrative? How did this reframing lead to the passage of Utah's own immigration policy reform? We find that the context and alternative framing of immigration engaged in by proponents shifted the discussion in Utah from an "enforcement only" approach to an economic and humanitarian approach which resulted in the passage of a state-level guest worker program while also influencing the policy narrative at the federal level.

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“…Immigrants have developed creative strategies of resistance that emphasized their humanity over their deportability, even within detention centers (Gill et al 2014; Tyler 2013). Immigrant communities have actively resisted aggressive enforcement programs such as 287(g), Arizona’s SB 1070, and the 2006 Sensenbrenner Bill, all of which make immigration enforcement a part of everyday policing (Boyce et al 2017; Gonzales 2014; Strunk and Leitner 2013; Voss and Bloemraad 2011). 4 Immigrants have used direct action such as public demonstrations, marches, and sit‐ins to demand legislative or executive action on immigration reform (Ataç et al 2016; Marciniak 2013; Morales 2018; Tyler and Marciniak 2013).…”

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Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns

Kocher

Stuesse

2020

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Undocumented activism is on the rise. In response to the expansion of immigrant policing, detention, and deportation, immigrant rights organizers have increasingly deployed a longstanding approach to anti‐deportation activism called “deportation defense campaigns” (DDCs). DDCs seek to disrupt the deportation regime by preventing or delaying individual deportations and providing immigrants a path to temporary or permanent legalization on a case‐by‐case basis. Yet in the process, campaigns must address questions about when and how to challenge dominant discourses and institutions while also achieving short‐term goals. We examine DDCs through Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the “minor” to examine how campaigns navigate difficult decisions about when and how to employ tactics that are typically characterized as either disruptive or conformist. Indeed, we argue that disruption and conformism should be understood not as a static evaluative framework, but as strategies that condition, and are conditioned by, the contexts in which undocumented activism unfolds. Using ethnographic methods, we examine two DDCs to show how the campaigns strategically navigated the cramped political spaces of undocumented organizing in the months following the new Trump administration’s surge of anti‐immigrant policies. We find that DDCs simultaneously draw upon and subvert dominant forms of citizenship and belonging in order to pressure ICE to exercise legal discretion and stop deportation. We conclude that DDCs unfold under historically and geographically specific conditions that not only shape what counts as disruptive and conformist, but may call into question any easy division between the two altogether.

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Resisting Federal–Local Immigration Enforcement Partnerships: Redefining ‘Secure Communities’ and Public Safety

Cited by 41 publications

References 27 publications

Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Bringing Them “Out of the Shadows”: Analyzing the Movement to Reframe the Immigration Policy Narrative in Utah

Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns

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