Events

These days, as has long been the case, there is no shortage of news stories about the United States Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement or “ICE,” the agencies charged with border enforcement, detention, and deportation in the U.S. But despite the notoriety of the agencies themselves, most of us know little about the agents that work for the Border Patrol and ICE. Who are these agents, how do they come into the work, how are they trained and socialized to do their job, and how do they reconcile the political...

In Spring of 2021, the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded a grant of more than $333,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation to launch a two-year Diversity and Entrepreneurship Fellowship Program. The new initiative expands Berkeley undergraduate research, advocacy and internship experiences that focus on how small...

There are approximately 150 detention facilities across the United States, with plans to construct more in the future. Though the law maintains that detention is "non-punitive," facilities function as total institutions where almost all daily activities are overseen by authorities, and those detained are not guaranteed legal representation. Based on participant observations and multiple interviews with 41 immigrants in detention from Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean collected at two detention centers, I show how legal...

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