Immigration Enforcement: A Resource Page

The Basics

• The Fallacy of "Enforcement First": Immigration Enforcement Without Immigration Reform Has Been Failing for Decades (May 2013)
• Two Systems of Justice: How the Immigration System Falls Short of American Ideals of Justice (March 2013)
• A Decade of Rising Immigration Enforcement (January 2013)
• The Myth of "Self-Deportation": How Behavioral Economics Reveals the Fallacies behind “Attrition through Enforcement” (April 2012)
• Discrediting “Self Deportation” as Immigration Policy (February 2012)
• Fiscally Irresponsible: Immigration Enforcement without Reform Wastes Taxpayer Dollars (October 2011)
• Throwing Good Money After Bad: Immigration Enforcement Without Immigration Reform Doesn’t Work (May 2010)
• Enforcing Immigration Laws: Repairing our Broken Immigration System (December 2009)

Enforcement in the New Legislation

• A Guide to H.R. 15: The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
• A Guide to S.744: Understanding the 2013 Senate Immigration Bill
• Cracking the SAFE Act: Understanding the Impact and Context of H.R. 2278, the “Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act”
• An Unlikely Couple: The Similar Approaches to Border Enforcement in H.R. 1417 and S. 744

The Enforcers & Enforcement Programs

• E-Verify: A Resource Page
• Secure Communities: A Resource Page
• State and Local Immigration: A Resource Page
• The 287(g) Program: A Flawed and Obsolete Method of Immigration Enforcement (November 2012)
• Border Patrol Agents as Interpreters Along the Northern Border: Unwise Policy, Illegal Practice (September 2012)
• Falling Through the Cracks: How Gaps in ICE's Prosecutorial Discretion Policy Affect Immigrants Without Legal Representation (May 2010)
• Authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents: An Overview (February 2012)
• Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws Through the 287(g) Program (April 2010)

The Border

• You can find all of our border resources at The Border: A Resource Page

Immigration and Crime

• From Anecdotes to Evidence: Setting the Record Straight on Immigrants and Crime (July 2013)
• Aggravated Felonies: An Overview (March 2012)
• New FBI Data Confirms Falling Crime Rates in Arizona (June 2010)
• Arizona’s Punishment Doesn’t Fit the Crime: Studies Show Decrease in Arizona Crime Rates (April 2010)

Immigration Detention and Deportation

• Detention: A Resource Page
• The Criminal Alien Program (CAP): Immigration Enforcement in Prisons and Jails (August 2013)
• Enforcement Without Focus: Non-Violent Offenders Caught in the US Immigration Enforcement System (April 2013)
• Proportionality in Immigration Law: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime in Immigration Court? (April 2012)
• Falling Through the Cracks: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Children Caught Up in the Child Welfare System (December 2012)
• Locked Up Without End: Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Will Not Make America Safer (October 2011)
• So Close and Yet So Far: How the Three- and Ten-Year Bars Keep Families Apart (July 2011)
• Deportation in the Time of Cholera: DHS's Mixed Response to Haiti's Earthquake (May 2011)
• After the Raid is Over: Marshalltown, Iowa and the Consequences of Worksite Enforcement Raids (January 2011)
• ICE’S Enforcement Priorities and the Factors that Undermine Them (November 2010)
• The Ones They Leave Behind: Deportation of Lawful Permanent Residents Harm U.S. Citizen Children (April 2010)
• Protecting Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Raids (February 2010)
• The Criminal Alien Program: Immigration Enforcement in Travis County, Texas (February 2010)
• Immigration Detainers: A Comprehensive Look (February 2010)

Related Resources

• Read our Border Resource Page.
• Read our Detention Resource Page
• Read our E-Verify Resource Page.
• Read our Secure Communities Resource Page.
• Read our S.B. 1070 Resource Page.

Blog Posts

• Read all of our blog posts on Immigration Enforcement.
• Read all of our blog posts on the 287(g) Program.
• Read all of our blog posts on Crime.
• Read all of our blog posts on Deportation.
• Read all of our blog posts on Detainers.
• Read all of our blog posts on Detention.
• Read all of our blog posts on Due Process.
• Read all of our blog posts on E-Verify.
• Read all of our blog posts on the Police and Immigration.
• Read all of our blog posts on Raids.
• Read all of our blog posts on Secure Communities.