Victims and Culprits
Victims and Culprits
Deportation as a Pipeline to Prison
The criminal alien mandate requires that border agents direct enforcement resources toward high-priority targets, principally those with a criminal record. Rather than processing apprehended undocumented migrants according to explicit “racial” and “national” criteria, agents now distinguish between victims and criminals. Focusing on Border Patrol–migrant interactions, this chapter examines how enforcement priorities rooted in the Criminal Alien Program have transformed apprehension and deportation practices on the border.
Keywords: U.S. Border Patrol, undocumented migration, criminal enforcement priorities, Arizona border policing, deportation, detention, immigration prosecutions, migrant rights, victims’ rights, criminal aliens
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