Crimmigration Law
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781641059459
Subjects: Law, united states
Description: "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 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 attorneys, immigration judges, and prosecutors employed for many years by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)"--