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Title

  • Main Title Enforcing Immigration Law: The Role of State and Local Law Enforcement

Creator

  • Author: Seghetti, Lisa M.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Domestic Social Policy Division
  • Author: Viña, Stephen R.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Legislative Attorney; American Law Division
  • Author: Ester, Karma
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Knowledge Services Group

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2004-03-11

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report examines the role of state and local law enforcement in enforcing immigration law. The discussion is limited to the role of state and local law enforcement in the investigation, arrest, and detention of all immigration violators. The report does not discuss the prosecution, adjudication, or removal of aliens who violate the law. The report opens with a brief discussion of the types of immigration interior enforcement activities that the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) pursued and the current immigration activities that are now the focus of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A discussion of the legal authority that permits state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration law under certain circumstances follows. Current administrative efforts to involve state and local law enforcement in enforcing immigration law as well as selected issues are discussed. The report concludes with a discussion of the pros and cons of such a policy and an analysis of policy options for Congress.
  • Physical Description: 31 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Immigration
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Intergovernmental relations
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Immigration law
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Immigration - Law enforcement
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: State and local government
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Criminal justice

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: RL32270
  • Accession or Local Control No: RL32270 2004-03-11
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs5950
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