This document discusses the merging of immigration and criminal law enforcement. It examines four programs - Criminal Alien Program, Secure Communities, 287(g) NFOP, and how they have led to increased apprehensions of criminal aliens. The document also discusses how home raids have affected immigrant communities and how the cooperation between police and border patrol has consequences. It poses discussion questions about how deportation is a form of post-entry social control and the problems that arise from merging criminal and immigration enforcement.

1. Chapter 5
Getting Caught:
Targets of
Deportation Policy

2. Class Goals
• Develop an understanding of how immigration and
criminal law enforcement have merged.
• Develop an understanding of how immigration law
enforcement affects families and communities.

3. What happens when the Border Patrol
cooperates with police?

4. How do home raids affect
immigrant communities?

5. How apprehensions vary

6. Four programs
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
Criminal Alien
Program
Secure
Communities
287 (g) NFOP

7. Criminal
Aliens
• Walter: immigration
fraud
• Manuel: Identity theft
• Do they pose a danger
to society?

8. Questions for Discussion
• How is deportation a form of post-entry social control?
• What evidence does the author provide that immigration
and criminal law enforcement have been merged?
• What are some of the problems with regard to the
merging of criminal and immigration law enforcement?
• Why do you think there is so much variation in terms of
how immigrants of various national origins are
apprehended?

9. Class Goals: RECAP
• Develop an understanding of how immigration and
criminal law enforcement have merged.
• Develop an understanding of how immigration law
enforcement affects families and communities.