Journal article
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES: The Fourth Amendment and Privacy Implications of Interior Immigration Enforcement
UC Davis Law Review, Vol.41, pp.1137-2001
01 Feb 2008
Abstract
Introduction This Article considers the privacy implications of recent initiatives designed to expand the "interior enforcement" of federal immigration laws. While immigration enforcement efforts traditionally have focused on the physical border itself, since the mid-1990s, and to an even greater extent since the terrorist attacks of 2001, the federal government and a number of states and localities have intensified efforts to regulate immigration away from the physical border, in the interior of the country. The specific proposals have taken a variety of different forms, but collectively they seek to expand the range of areas in day-to-day life where individuals are expected to demonstrate their lawful presence in the United States. 1 To some extent, the expansion of interior enforcement during the last few years has relied upon old methods, such as workplace raids by federal immigration agents in search of noncitizens who might be working in the United States without authorization. 2 But rather than relying exclusively upon federal immigration agents, who number only a few thousand, the new interior enforcement initiatives also seek to enlist hundreds of thousands of other public and private actors as "force multipliers" in the collection of immigration and citizenship status information from individuals whom they encounter and the identification of noncitizens who potentially might be subject to deportation. 3 These new interior enforcement initiatives target both unauthorized immigrants and other noncitizens who might be subject to deportation proceedings. Recent estimates indicate that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United ...
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- Title
- RIGHTS AND REMEDIES: The Fourth Amendment and Privacy Implications of Interior Immigration Enforcement
- Creators
- Anil Kalhan
- Publication Details
- UC Davis Law Review, Vol.41, pp.1137-2001
- Publisher
- Regents of the University of California UC Davis Law Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991020546419304721