Title: Crimmigration law /
Authors: García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc
Year: 2015
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law United States Criminal provisions.
Abstract: "At its most basic, 'crimmigration law' describes the convergence of two distinct bodies of law: criminal law and procedure with immigration law and procedure. For most of the nation's history, these operated almost entirely free of the other. Criminal law and procedure was thought to be the province of prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, and the state and federal judges who oversee criminal prosecutions every day. Immigration law, in contrast, was confined to immigration courts housed within the executive branch of the federal government and staffed by immigration attorneys, immigration judges, and prosecutors employed for many years by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and now the Departments of Homeland Security or Justice. With this in mind, Crimmigration Law lays out crimmigration law's contours.^
Contents: Crime-based removal -- Relief from crime-based removal -- Immigration detention -- Right to counsel -- Federal immigration crimes -- State immigration crimes -- Border policing -- The civil immigration detention system -- State involvement in crimmigration law enforcement.