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Crimmigration In Gangland: Race, Crime, And Removal During The Prohibition Era, Geoffrey Heeren
Crimmigration In Gangland: Race, Crime, And Removal During The Prohibition Era, Geoffrey Heeren
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In 1926, local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities in Chicago pursued a deportation drive ostensibly directed at gang members. However, the operation largely took the form of indiscriminate raids on immigrant neighborhoods of the city. Crimmigration in Gangland describes the largely forgotten 1926 deportation drive in Chicago as a means to augment the origin story for "crimmigration." Scholars up until now have mostly contended that the convergence of criminal and immigration law occurred in the 1980s as part of the War on Drugs, with crime serving as a proxy for race for policy makers unable to openly argue for …