On the Side of ICE

Shows how police serve to assist ICE despite sanctuary laws insisting otherwise In the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and ICE.While local police enforce local, state and federal laws, they are not required to enforce civil immigration laws.This book examines the role of local police as voluntary, auxiliary reinforcements for ICE, focusing on the police force in New Jersey.It argues that even police in sanctuary jurisdictions, which explicitly label themselves as immigrant-friendly, are nonetheless still informally multiplying ICE's forces through voluntary cooperation. While to date, the ethnography of policing has been produced from participant observation with the police in "ride-alongs" during patrol work and in jails and the examination of official documents like police reports, this book employs a novel method of transcribing police body worn camera (BWC) video f