Title Borderland circuitry : immigration surveillance in the United States and beyond / Ana Muñiz

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents The land gets tangled in walls and circuitry -- You cross a border and the Feds build a database -- California cops become the tip of the spear -- A lawyer watches a wreck unfold -- ICE riggs an algorithm -- We make our own maps -- A border bleeds out -- A hand searches for a root -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological appendix : I demand some documents Summary "Political discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s, Borderland Circuitry investigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands. Diving deep into a select group of information systems, Borderland Circuitry reveals how those with legal and political power deploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2022) Subject Immigration enforcement -- United States -- 21st century Immigration enforcement -- 21st century Data mining in law enforcement. Data centers -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. Data centers Data mining in law enforcement Immigration enforcement SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 Subject North America -- Mexican-American Border Region United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2021061571 ISBN 9780520976764 0520976762

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