Robert Mcnamara

The Criminalization of Immigration

Truth, Lies, Tragedy, and Consequences

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the history of immigration to the United States; its criminalization under the Trump administration; debates over criminalization; effects on immigrants, U.S. residents, and the U.S. economy; and this country's relationships with other nations. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of past and current immigration policy in the United States and exposes falsehoods in the rhetoric and narrative portraying Latino and Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Much support for intensified immigration enforcement and deportation is based on repeated statements by federal officials, including the U.S. president, that immigrants pose a threat to national security, contribute to crime, and take jobs away from native-born residents. The evidence has consistently concluded that these narratives are inaccurate. This text examines white nationalism as a backdrop to understanding the rationale behind current immigration policy and tactics. It examines how political and economic factors, broadly defined as neoliberal policies, shape the immigration narrative. It addresses the criminal justice system's applicability to immigration, law enforcement efforts, problems with immigration courts and judges, and how the detention of immigrants is part of a larger mass incarceration of people of color. Finally, the text offers insight into the reasons for massive migration, with the U.S. contributing to the problem by supporting regimes that endorse or allow humanitarian crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-Clio, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781440873706
• ISBN-10: 1440873704
• Artikelnr.: 60583411

Autorenporträt

Robert Hartmann McNamara is professor of criminal justice at the Citadel in Charleston, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The
Criminalization of Immigration in the United States 3. The Police and
Immigration 4. Immigration and the Courts 5. The Detention and Deportation
of Immigrants 6. The Consequences of Criminalizing Immigration 7. Framing
the Immigration Problem Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index