Sunday Speaker – Marie Provine – Policing Immigration – A Return to Arpaio’s Arizona?

Description:

Arizona voters recently handily approved Prop 314, which allows state and local law enforcement to arrest non-citizens who cross the border unlawfully and permits Arizona judges to order deportations. Are we going to return to "Show me your papers?" on Arizona highways and will we once again see sheriffs conducting workplace raids?

We need to remember that the federal government claims sole power to enforce its immigration laws. But almost a century ago we began seeing exceptions to this claim of plenary federal power. Particularly around the southwest border, the federal authorities sought help from local police and sheriffs to enforce their law. The new administration in Washington will undoubtedly support laws like Prop. 314. They may even urge Arizona to go further. And we live in a state where lawmakers are eager to help enforce federal immigration law, and voters will back them up. So what is likely to happen? Past experience, locally and nationally, can help us answer this question.

This talk describes how local law enforcement of federal immigration law has worked out in the past and delves into the likely future of Prop 314. Much of the research I will discuss comes from a book I co-authored: Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
 

Bio:

Professor Provine earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and her JD and PhD at Cornell University. She began her academic career at Syracuse University in political science and remained there over two decades, with breaks to serve as a Judicial Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington and to direct the Law and Social Sciences Program at the National Science Foundation. She came to ASU in 2001 to direct the School of Justice Studies (now School of Social Transformation). Her academic scholarship focuses on race and inequality in the context of criminal justice and immigration. She is the author of various books and articles, including Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs, and most recently, co-authored Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2007-8 in Canada and Mexico. Since retirement in 2011, Provine has had more time to focus on her art. She is president of the Tempe Artists Guild. 

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