Illegal Immigration Case Study

The Community Policing era has been one of the contemporary police activities in the last 30 years. It is more of a decentralized approach to reducing crime by involving the same officer in the same community on a long term basis, so residents will develop trust and then provide information and assistance to the officer. Community Policing does not replace motorized patrol or other police tactics but instead compliments them with community partnership and problem solving (Bailey, 2011).

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 has a mandatory detention provision in 8 U.S.C 1226(c). The issue this pathfinder explores is whether §1226 (c) requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain a noncitizen offender who committed a qualifying offense “when the alien is released” from custody immediately or any time after they are released from criminal custody. The language of the statute is ambiguous because it does not provide a time frame for when an alien can be detained after being released from custody for a qualifying offense. The statute is not clear whether “when released” can mean a couple of days after release from custody or years after release.

Community policing has evolved to be the most used strategy for policing. “It is an approach to crime detection and prevention that provides police officers and supervisors with new tools for addressing recurrent problems that plague communities and consume a majority of police agency time and resources” (Peak, 2012, 65). It has been defined by various people differently. But all the definitions have similar principles (Chappell, 2009). They focus on proactive problem solving and create relationships with the community to address any issue that may arise. Community policing is a combination of client-oriented and problem-oriented policing.

I chose not to include the discussion of a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants for personal reasons. My opinion on this subject is too strong for me to be objective. As an immigrant myself I have gone through the daunting and intimidating process of obtaining the United States citizenship. I am very happy and proud to be an American citizen. Nevertheless, I believe, that giving legal status to people who chose to disrespect the law of the United States and put financial stability of their families above the law just sends the wrong message. It undermines the legal and administrative struggles many people undergo on their way to legally become U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It is just my personal opinion though.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is an investigative agency in the Department of Homeland Security that works with the federal and state to enforce the 287g program of immigration policies in the states. The program of Immigration and Nationality Acts allow the rights for law officers to function within the immigration system in order to enforce noncitizen that have broken federal immigration policies (ice.gov). The purpose of the program is to cooperate with federal officers to prosecute non residency criminals for the safety of the public (ice.gov). A non-citizen status convicted of a crime against the state are taken into custody over minor infractions, and draws attention to racial profiling (Rodriguez). Along with the ability

Border crisis in Texas was published in an online national review on June 2014 and was directed towards those in the political field or those in disfavor of the president’s job in the area of controlling the borders. The author focuses on the governments’ lack of follow through with the procedure regarding illegal immigration. In addition, the author claims the government is making the problem worse by the lack of follow through. The claims are well thought out and possibly justified, but there is a lack of sufficient documentation or back-up to the claims.

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to deport about two to three million undocumented immigrants on his lectionary campaign. Trump campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration, vowing to build a wall along the Mexican border. Asked in the 60 Minutes interview if he plans to actually build the wall, he said yes, adding that parts of the border might include fencing. “But for certain areas, a wall is appropriate.

“There were 11.1 million of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S in 2014” (5 Facts About Illegals). This epidemic is causing hospitals to declare bankruptcy wherever there is a larger population of illegal immigrants. Living so close to the Mexican border, Texas has an inflation of illegal immigrants causing working citizens to pay their hard earned money for illegal immigrants to get health care for free, even though they aren’t employed or a citizen of the United States. American citizens should not provide healthcare to illegal immigrants.

In the case studies, undocumented Mexican immigrants are called illegal immigrants, or illegal aliens. Their choice of words matter greatly. Lakoff tells us that ‘illegal’ defines an immigrant as inherently bad; while ‘alien’ stresses that that person is exclusively foreign, and altogether Other. This racialization which separates certain people as inferior or immoral has more and more blurred the lines between illegality and criminality. By marking those different from the Anglo/White middle class as illegitimate or unwelcome, we normalize the association between ‘illegal’ and ‘Mexican immigrant’ (Gallo 2014, Dick 2011). When a brown-skinned person is speaking Spanish they get racialized as unintelligent or lazy; which further to indexes their

Illegal immigration has been a controversial topic over several years in America, but it has come to light in recent years because of the dramatic increase of Latino individuals crossing the southern border of the United States. This requires multiple people in multiple sections of our government, whether it is politicians, federal law enforcement agencies, or local police, to work together flawlessly to police and combat the current predicament in our nation. Throughout this paper, I am going to discuss the reasons illegal immigrants come to America, the effects it has on our nation, and potential solutions to effectively police and control the problem of illegal immigration along the porous southern border of the United States of America.

Since announcing his run for the presidency in 2015, Donald Trump promptly decided to make immigration a substantial part of his campaign. Trump raised awareness of a problem that many politicians weren’t talking about: sanctuary cities. Although commonly referred to as sanctuary cities, the technical term is “sanctuary jurisdiction”, which includes cities, counties, and entire states. Sanctuary jurisdictions do not currently have a leal definition but they are generally considered areas that refuse to enforce immigration law and often times are uncooperative with the federal government’s immigration decisions. The president has made it clear that he is committed to tackling immigration issues and reforming legislation that makes it easy

Community policing could possibly be called the new orthodoxy of law enforcement in the United States. It has become an increasingly popular alternative to what many police administrators recognized as the failure of traditional policing to deal effectively with street crime, especially crimes of

While there are multiple components to Texas’ border security, stopping illegal immigration is one of the main steps in a secure border. Texas Department of Public Safety states that between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2016 over 130,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested for various criminal offenses (2016, Texas Department of Public Safety.) Texas Department of State Health Services states that there are 28,240,245 humans living within the state of Texas. Comparatively, the illegal immigrant arrests made seems

Immigration is a big problem when it is done illegally. However, I don’t believe ripping children of their parents is the best solution. “In one widely publicized case, Guadalupe García de Rayos of Phoenix, a mother of two U.S.-born children who has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, was detained at her annual check-in and deported to Mexico the next morning” (TheWeek.com). Cases such as this shouldn’t be what America is striving for. The problem shouldn’t be solved with agents, having to compromise their morals by separating a loving mother from her children by thousand of miles. Sometimes the separation is even larger, spanning oceans and continents.

Community relation issues across the nation have been increasing and causing many conflicts between law enforcement and communities. There has been so much disorder between communities and law enforcements not agreeing on how situation have been handled. Both the community and law enforcements having different perspectives on making decisions without ever looking at the others side and acknowledging each other’s reasoning behind their actions. Racism, responsibility and morals are some of many terms that are yet to be sorted out within all these communities that have on going conflicts. The relationships between a community and its law enforcement is important, although it is the police job to enforce, it is also the communities job to enforce all day and everyday (Russell).