Criminalizing the Undocumented: Examining the Punitive Turn Towards Undocumented Migrants and the Resulting Constitutional Rights Violations
During the last two decades, anti-immigrant ideology has gripped the public's imagination, exerting tremendous influence on immigration enforcement practices. This ideology supports the view that undocumented migrants are not subject to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. Following...
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The University of Arizona.
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625085 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/625085 |
| Summary: | During the last two decades, anti-immigrant ideology has gripped the public's imagination,
exerting tremendous influence on immigration enforcement practices. This ideology supports the
view that undocumented migrants are not subject to equal protection under the U.S. Constitution.
Following the work of critical legal scholar, Juliet Strumpf, this thesis argues that this antiimmigrant
ideology of "crimmigration" is being implemented through detention and deportation
practices that routinely violate the right of Due Process guaranteed to illegal aliens by the U.S.
Constitution. As highly revered as the Constitution is by U.S. citizens, the courts, legislative and
executive branches of the government, and the general public are loathe to extend its protection
to non-citizens. This phenomenon of crimmigration leads to practices, such as detainment of
undocumented immigrants, why systematically violate Constitutional rights on a massive scale. |
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