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2015

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Smart(Er) Enforcement: Rethinking Removal, Daniel Kanstroom Oct 2015

Smart(Er) Enforcement: Rethinking Removal, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

Substantial interior immigration enforcement will undoubtedly continue in the United States, whether or not the legislative and executive branches can craft a legalization program. Though some enforcement is undoubtedly necessary, the system’s continuity will also be due in part to inertia. The size of the current enforcement system is stunning, affecting many millions of noncitizens and removing many hundreds of thousands annually. Equally impressive are its costs and its complexity. One recent study aptly described the system as “formidable machinery,” involving a “complex, cross-agency system that is interconnected in an unprecedented fashion.” Spending on immigration enforcement was about $18 billion …

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Learning From Our Mistakes: Using Immigration Enforcement Errors To Guide Reform, Amanda Frost Dec 2014

Learning From Our Mistakes: Using Immigration Enforcement Errors To Guide Reform, Amanda Frost

Amanda Frost

Immigration scholars and advocates frequently criticize our immigration system for imposing severe penalties akin to (or worse than) those in the criminal justice system — such as prolonged detention and permanent exile from the United States — without providing sufficient procedural protections to minimize enforcement errors. Yet there has been relatively little scholarship examining the frequency of errors in immigration enforcement and identifying recurring causes of those errors, in part because the data is hard to find. This Article begins by canvassing some of the publicly available data on enforcement errors, which reveal that such mistakes occur too frequently to …

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