Chapter 5

Getting Caught:

Targets of Deportation

Policy

Class Goals• Develop an understanding of how immigration

and criminal law enforcement have merged.• Develop an understanding of how immigration

law enforcement affects families and communities.

What happens when the Border Patrol cooperates with police?

How do home raids affect immigrant communities?

How apprehensions vary

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Criminal Aliens

• Walter: immigration fraud

• Manuel: Identity theft

• Do they pose a danger to society?

Questions for Discussion

• How is deportation a form of post-entry social control?

• What evidence does the author provide that immigration and criminal law enforcement have been merged?

• What are some of the problems with regard to the merging of criminal and immigration law enforcement?

• Why do you think there is so much variation in terms of how immigrants of various national origins are apprehended?

Class Goals: RECAP• Develop an understanding of how immigration

and criminal law enforcement have merged.• Develop an understanding of how immigration

law enforcement affects families and communities.