Immigration Policing and Federalism Through the Lens of Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: While Arizona has been widely interpreted as putting the brakes on state and local immigration regulation, it hardly brings state and local involvement in immigration law and policy to an end.7 With respect to immigration policing, in particular, while the Court brushed back the state's unilateral attempts to regulate and enforce immigration law, it simultaneously gave a boost to state and local immigration policing under the aegis of federal initiatives that enlist state and local cooperation.8 Running counter to a conventional narrative of federal inaction on immigration control, the steady expansion of these federal arrangements in recent decades has contributed to an enduring convergence of immigration control and criminal law enforcement and the removal of unprecedented numbers of individuals.9 The long shadow cast by mass immigration enforcement has integrated the principles, priorities, and procedures of immigration control into the day-to-day practices of many state and local police and criminal justice institutions to a considerable extent.10 Those federal programs are now undergoing a sea change with the deployment of technology.For example, even as it forcefully has urged 7 Compare David A. Martin, Reading Arizona, 98 VA.L. REV.IN BRIEF 41, 41-42 (2012), http://www.virginialawreview.org/inbrief
Author: Anil Kalhan
Institutions: Drexel University, University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1912631609