With Mass Deportation Comes Mass Punishment

Hernández, David Manuel; Eason, John M.; Goldsmith, Pat Rubio; Abel, Richard D.; McNeely, Andrew

doi:10.4324/9781317211563-20

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“…The use of private subcontractors and privately owned and operated detention facilities has created an industry reliant on immigration enforcement and immigrant confinement. This situation is alarming given the harms imposed by these forms of detention, which disproportionately subject ethnic minorities to violence and poor conditions that can lead to severe outcomes, including suicide and death (Hernández et al., 2018; Marquez et al., 2021).…”

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Creating a minority threat: Assessing the spillover effect of local immigrant detention on Hispanic arrests

Muchow

2024

Criminology

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Amid punitive shifts in crime and immigration control during the 1980s and 1990s, Hispanic individuals comprised a growing share of the population confined in U.S. prisons and jails. Although it is widely acknowledged that the nation's wars on crime and drugs contributed to higher rates of minority arrest, limited empirical research has examined whether the merging of immigration control with criminal justice practice during this period intensified these disparities. This article uses county‐level arrest data from California between 1980 and 2004 to investigate whether intergovernmental service agreements (IGSAs) leasing jail space for immigrant detention increased rates of Hispanic arrest. Employing a quasi‐experimental design that leverages the staggered adoption of IGSAs across counties, this study finds that these agreements increased rates of Hispanic arrest but had no discernible impact on arrest rates for White or Black residents. Supplemental analyses reveal that these increases were driven by misdemeanor arrests and were particularly pronounced in counties where the Hispanic population comprised between 11 and 22 percent. These findings suggest that IGSAs may trigger minority threat concerns that increase arrests, shedding additional light on Hispanic representation in the criminal justice system.

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Creating a minority threat: Assessing the spillover effect of local immigrant detention on Hispanic arrests

Muchow

2024

Criminology

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“…Under this legal regime, "[p]eople who pose neither flight risks nor danger to the community are nonetheless confined for indeterminate lengths of time" (Anello 2013, p. 365). Some scholars have argued that these policy choices were animated in large part by racial and economic anxieties over immigration, and the social construction of immigrants as criminals and national security threats (Golash-Boza & Hondagneu-Sotelo 2013, Hernández 2013, Welch 2002. Much less examined in the literature are two other forces that influence the scale of immigration detention: (a) the role of local governments and the private prison industry in changing the demand for detention bedspaces and (b) administrative and judicial decision-making processes that result in overdetention.…”

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“…Phillips et al (2006) draw on 300 interviews with a random sample of Salvadoran deportees to show that verbal harassment, procedural failings, and excessive use of force are common during detention. Hernández et al (2018) examine the relationship between confinement conditions and morbidity/mortality in detention and find that the facilities' "punitive capacity" is a significant predictor of deaths, suicide attempts, and health referrals. Finally, an emerging body of research demonstrates that certain detention conditions engender a variety of legal and social harms.…”

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Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences

Ryo

2019

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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During the summer of 2018, the US government detained thousands of migrant parents and their separated children pursuant to its zero-tolerance policy at the United States–Mexico border. The ensuing media storm generated unprecedented public awareness about immigration detention. The recency of this public attention belies a long-standing immigration enforcement practice that has generated a growing body of research in the past couple of decades. I take stock of this research, focusing on the causes, conditions, and consequences of immigration detention in the United States. I also discuss critical tasks for future research, including ( a) examining the role of local governments, the private prison industry, and decision makers responsible for release decisions in maintaining the detention system; ( b) extending the field of inquiry to less-visible detainee populations and detention facility guards and staff, for a fuller understanding of detention conditions; and ( c) investigating not only direct but also indirect consequences of detention.

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