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Prosecuting Immigration
Friday, November 6, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Haines Hall - Room 279
Law School's Ingrid V. Eagly examines "consequences of the immigration prosecution regime"
Admission
Free and open to the public
Contact
UCLA Latin American Institute
(310) 825-4571
latinamctr@international.ucla.edu
Website
http://www.international.ucla.edu/lai/events/showevent....
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Eagly traces the evolution of immigration crime prosecution and contrasts how the reality of these prosecutions diverges from the conventional understanding of the criminal justice system. Specifically, she argues that there are two significant, and troubling, consequences of the immigration prosecution regime. First, it incentivizes prosecutors to borrow the tools of civil immigration enforcement to support criminal prosecution, thereby distorting criminal procedural protections and expanding criminal law enforcement power beyond the confines of the criminal state. Second, it deputizes criminal prosecutors to act as de facto immigration screeners, thereby threatening the substance and process of immigration law and reordering the aims of the criminal law.
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