The Role Of Immigrants In The Criminal Justice System

Immigration from Latin America and the growth of the nation 's Latino population are two of the most important and controversial developments in the recent history of the United States. Latinos are destined to continue to have an enormous impact

The Latino Threat is a concept of an imposing threat of the Latino, whether they be from Mexico or any other Latin country, and how they affect the U.S. and its citizens. This concept is described heavily Leo R. Chavez’ book aptly titled The Latino Threat. In the book, he describes how the Latino threat as a concept has been used routinely to underline the aspect of United States citizenship in a tit for tat manner; that being dehumanizing the Latino to raise the standing of U.S. citizenship. The U.S. as a nation believes it should feel better about itself because it is the one that turns people away rather than being the place where people run from. Over the history of America this isolationist view on illegal immigrants has waned and

Many workers work in jobs that pay them under the table or in horrible conditions. “Latino households can expect to earn 70 cents to a dollar less than the average white person makes. Hispanic households make 12 cents to a dollar less than white non-Hispanic people” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 224). With Latinos and Hispanics working under the table, they are not making as much as they would make if they were earning a paycheck legally. Since they are also sending money home to their families they have very little left of what they do earn for themselves. “Out of the last quarter century, the proportion of Latinos in poverty has been two or three times that of white non-Hispanics” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 224). With the average American battling to stay above the poverty line, more of the Latino and Hispanic communities are below it because of the financial obstacles in the way. Latino and Hispanic populations have been rapidly growing in the United States. “In 1975 congress addressed citizens with multilingual backgrounds” (Schaefer, 2012, P. 226). Many Latino and Hispanic Americans want to become legal so they can participate in the political position of being a United States citizen. Latino and Hispanic Americans want to be able to vote in upcoming elections. Since the increase in their population and the decision of congress in 1975; more ballots are being made to be English and Spanish depending on the particular country, city or state (Schaefer, 2012, P.

In addition, the factor that might play an important role in Latino’s wealthy is English language proficiency, about one in ten South/Central Americans and around one in five native Mexican adults do not speak English very well. Moreover, the differentiation between generations in Latinos plays an important role because second and third generations do better than the first generation or recent immigrants. The reason is language and experience in the labor market as well as educational achievements. The early the exposed to the U.S., the better they fare. “Latino men earn wages are about 60 percent of the wages earned by whites and 90 percent of those earned by African American”. Also, the origin between Latinos is important as researchers show that “Over 55 percent of the Latino labor force is foreign-born with less education and lower earning that natives”. that South/Central Americans and Puerto Ricans do better that Mexicans. In fact, Mexicans represent the 58.5 percent of Hispanics, but they tend to have less education and is the group with the fewer earnings salaries (Fry, R., & Lowell, L.,

The summer of 2010 was proven to be an especially historic one for immigration policy in the United States. In late spring 2010, Arizona passed Senate Bill 10701 —an extraordinary law that reflects and has provoked intense reactions by political leaders, commentators, and the public. The bill raises critical issues of race, security, sovereignty, civil rights, state power, and foreign relations. Such issues encompass larger debates about modern immigration law and policy, and are worthy of sustained public commentary and scholarly discourse. The impact of S.B. 1070 on the criminal justice system of Arizona—the duties and powers of Arizona law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities, and the relationship of the state legislation to federal

Arizona has enforced the new senate bill 1070 which gives the police authority to check immigration status when enforcing other laws. SB1070 is supposed to cut the down on the illegal immigrants in Arizona by having immigrants carry immigration papers, or will be held until proven their status in the USA. The more they try to secure the border with bill 1070 the more they end up taking away simple constitutional rights of the citizens. The senate bill 1070 that has been passed is causing racial profiling, unconstitutional acts, and has put federal law into question.

The amount of illegal immigration has increased drastically over the past two decades. This is a very controversial topic for the citizens and government. The amount of illegal immigration is much more apparent in the states along the borders of the United States. States like Texas, Arizona and New Mexico have an influx of immigrants because its nation sits adjacent to the Mexican border. The state of Arizona in particular wanted to regulate, diminish, and enforce the amount of undocumented people entering their state from Latin America. So they decided to pass a bill, that bill is known as S.B 1070. With this new bill law enforcement officers have the authority to request for legal documentation at their leisure. Not only can officers request

On April 23rd, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070, “The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” which it gives the police authority to check immigration status of any individual. The main intention of SB1070 is to cut down a majority of the illegal immigrants entering the United States by having the immigrants carry immigration papers to prove their identification of their legal status. However, SB1070 had focused more on trying to secure the border resulting into taking the citizens’ constitutional rights while causing uproar with a large amount of controversy. The senate bill 1070 that has been passed is causing racial profiling, unconstitutional acts, and has put the federal government into question

Student studying criminal justice and those employed in the field of criminal justice need to be aware of differences between those from different cultures. By studying multiculturalism one learns that different cultures can have values, beliefs, customs, and norms that are different from one’s own which leads to acceptance and understanding (McNamara & Burns, 2009). For those employed in the criminal justice field, with the changing face America, it is necessary to understand the background of others in order to do their job. Immigrant populations are part of every major city today and even most small towns have at least a small population of immigrants. Officers have to understand that their culture is different and that they have to

Despite the name, The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act ironically increases minorities’ fear of discrimination. As a result, many people question the constitutionality of the law. States laws like SB 1070 infringe on basic constitutional rights such as potential violation of the fourteenth amendment. In fact, these laws violate the Supremacy Clause, which states that federal law, treaties, and the Constitution are supreme law of the land, thus “allow[ing] discrimination against a discrete and insular minority or infringe on a fundamental right in violation of the Constitution” (Gilbert 201). Therefore, this law violates the fourteenth amendment because it deprives citizens of equal protection under the law. Additionally,

These policies have changed the way people travel to and from Mexico and the United States. By strengthening the enforcement efforts along the border, law enforcement has made it safer for all migrants who are looking to enter the U.S. legally. “The effect of U.S. immigration enforcement is not so much to stop migration, but to define the status of people- as subordinate- once they have arrived” (111). Many people were blocked from entering the country, such as imbeciles, homosexuals, and contract laborers. Although, it has been the nonwhite, poor, minorities that have been, and still are, the targets for deportation, detention, and

A decade of governmental planning and privatization of prisons has born what is known as the harshest immigration law in history. Astonishingly, this law wasn 't formed by our Federal Government, but by the Arizona State Senate in hopes of curtailing the ever growing population of illegal immigrants who are smuggled into the United States, come legally and overstay their visa, or come in hope of a better life. This writing will investigate the social construction and the circumstances that lead to atrocity surrounding the initiation of a long list of Arizona immigration laws. Secondly, the paper will provide a background on past policies that may have relation to the current policies enacted today and how their implementation has affected immigration by aliens into Arizona. Lastly, the paper will analyze the rendition of Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (Arizona Senate Bill 1070) and offer solutions to problems associated with the law in its most current form.

There has been an ongoing debate as to whether or not race and ethnicity have a bearing on an individual’s treatment in the criminal justice system for many years. I will be arguing that race and ethnicity do in fact, have a bearing on one’s treatment in the criminal justice system. I will be backing up my position on this topic by providing evidence from five scholarly articles.

As shown above, the debate between for and against immigrants, like the immigration will not stop. In fact, the united states were built on the pioneer immigrants. Millions of illegal immigrants and their families have settled in the united states since years, anyway, it is not easy now to discuss dealing with them without a humane look or security situation. Many of them with high education, talents, and highly experience. Not fair to find a connection between the immigrants and crimes, and the immigrants should not be treated the same. Crimes exist in any society the criminal could be citizen or immigrants that is not meant that the immigrants responsible for all crimes. It is wrong to consider a religious or national group responsible for

Hispanic Americans suffered similar fate as African- Americans in racial profiling. The media portrayed them as part of gangs and selling drugs. This group is more likely to have a strong group identity and view the police officers as “gringos” or foreigners (Aguiree , 2004). They already look at the police officers with negativity due to increased activities of deporting illegal occupiers (Davis & Hendricks, 2007). The police officers may be influenced to believe that this group is at higher risk of breaking laws and do not understand Hispanic Americans’ culture.