The Citizen and the Criminal
The Citizen and the Criminal
The Overreach of Immigration Enforcement
New enforcement targets and deployment of more border patrol to Arizona-Sonora border communities has inadvertently involved agents more directly in local crime control. This is the flip side to the more familiar scenario of local police and sheriffs who carry out immigration enforcement. This chapter considers the overreach of enforcement priorities and what some refer to as “net widening” in predominantly Latino border communities where border residents, mostly Mexican American citizens and legal permanent residents, are routinely arrested, prosecuted, sentenced, and, in some cases, deported for violations of immigration law.
Keywords: Arizona border communities, U.S. Border Patrol, border policing, crime control, Mexican Americans, civil rights, human smuggling, net widening, vigilantism, border activism
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