On Raids and Policing

#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus

Mutaza Ali Jafari, “The Fence,” ink and watercolor on paper. The Refugee Art Project

The **#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus** is a sixteen-part series of readings and tools to support education, research, and action to dissect and dismantle the U.S. immigration detention system. The syllabus is organized by theme and curated by historian [Tina Shull](https://medium.com/u/6e34ba3479d9) at [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)](http://endisolation.org).

Part Ten, “On Raids and Policing,” provides readings, reports, and multimedia resources for understanding and challenging the role of policing, racial profiling, raids, and local law enforcement in expanding the reach of the immigration detention system.

Readings

Ackerman, Alissa, The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences. Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
Aksyutina, Olga, “Migration Policy and the Criminalization of Protest,” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2010.

- Armenta, Amada. [*Protect, Serve, and Deport*](http://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.33/):* The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement. *University of California Press, 2017. - Brotherton, David C., “Exiling New Yorkers,” in [*Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today*](https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Out-Other-Introduction-Immigration/dp/0231141297/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502930248%26sr=1-1%26keywords=keeping+out+the+other). Columbia University Press, 2008. - Brotherton, David C. and Philip Kretsedemas, “Open Markets, Militarized Borders? Immigration Enforcement Today,” in [*Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today*](https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Out-Other-Introduction-Immigration/dp/0231141297/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502930248%26sr=1-1%26keywords=keeping+out+the+other). Columbia University Press, 2008. - Camayd-Freixas, Erik, “[Interpreting After the Largest ICE Raid in US History: A Personal Account](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/14/opinion/14ed-camayd.pdf?mcubz=3).” June, 2008; [*US Immigration Reform and its Global Impact: Lessons from the Postville Raid*](https://www.amazon.com/Immigration-Reform-Its-Global-Impact/dp/1349290106/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=). Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. - Davis, Mike, “The Hammer and the Rock,” in [*City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles*](http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/Mike_Davis_City_of_Quartz.pdf). Verso, 2006. - Drucker, Ernest. [*A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America*](https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Prisons-Epidemiology-Incarceration-America/dp/1595588795/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503167669&sr=1-1&keywords=plague+of+prisons). The New Press, 2013. - G.S. “[Introduction: Imprisonment, Immigration Control, and Drug Enforcement](https://www.jstor.org/stable/29768235?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents).” *Social Justice* 31, 1:2 (2004) 1–6. - James, Joy*. *[*States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/states-of-confinement-policing-detention-and-prisons/oclc/41173740&referer=brief_results)*. *St. Martin’s Press, 2000. - Lawston, Jodie M. and Ruben R. Murillo, “Policing Our Border, Policing Our Nation: An Examination of the Ideological Connections between Border Vigilantism and U.S. National Ideology,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012. - Moran, Dominique. [*Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration*](https://www.amazon.com/Carceral-Geography-Spaces-Practices-Incarceration/dp/1138308463/ref=sr_1_1%3Fie=UTF8%26qid=1502923153%26sr=8-1%26keywords=carceral+spaces)*. *Forthcoming*, *Routledge, 2017. - Parenti, Christian. [*Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Lockdown-America-Police-Prisons-Crisis/dp/1844672492/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503167687&sr=1-1&keywords=lockdown+america)*.* Verso, 1999. - Pedroza, Juan Manuel, “[US Immigration Enforcement at a Crossroads: What Can We Learn from the ‘Secure Communities’ Program?”](https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/04/us-immigration-0)*Border Criminologies*, Oxford University, May 2015. - Perkinson, Robert. [*Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire*.](https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Tough-Americas-Prison-Empire/dp/0312680473/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503167701&sr=1-2&keywords=texas+tough) Macmillan, 2010. - [Puente v. Arpaio: Stop the Raids!](https://puenteaz.wordpress.com)

- Ritchie, Andrea J. [*Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color*](http://invisiblenomorebook.com/the-book/). Beacon Press, 2017. - Seigel, Micol, “William Bratton in the Other L.A.,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012. - “[Sheriff Joe](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/07/20/sheriff-joe),” *The New Yorker, *2009. - Simon, Jonathan. [*Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear*](https://www.amazon.com/Governing-Through-Crime-Transformed-Democracy/dp/0195386019/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503167718&sr=1-1&keywords=governing+through+crime). Oxford University Press, 2007. - Staudt, Kathleen, “Bordering the Other in the U.S. Southwest: El Pasoans Confront the Local Sheriff,” in [*Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today*](https://www.amazon.com/Keeping-Out-Other-Introduction-Immigration/dp/0231141297/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502930248%26sr=1-1%26keywords=keeping+out+the+other). Columbia University Press, 2008. - Travis, Jeremy, “Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion,” in [*Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment*](http://thenewpress.com/books/invisible-punishment). The New Press, 2003.