abstract

In the months following Trump’s 2016 election as U.S. president, scores of cities across the United States instituted or reaffirmed “sanctuary” measures that impede federal immigration enforcement actions in their midst. Yet in the heart of these “sanctuary” cities, many immigrants remain vulnerable to deportation. This article describes one community campaign to identify, track, and stop a mechanism through which urban immigrants are detained and deported: data sharing between local police agencies and federal immigration officials. We draw on Kyle Walker’s (2015) framework of place, scale, and networks of local immigration politics to show how overlapping scales of immigrant policing ultimately jeopardized Chicago’s promise to be a place of immigrant sanctuary. We then describe how community organizers exploited this tension as they exposed the effects of Chicago police data sharing practices on black and Latinx Chicagoans and campaigned for a stronger city sanctuary policy.

摘要

在下面的特朗普的2016当选为美国总统的几个月里，美国各地的城市得分制定或重申“避难所”措施阻碍在他们中间联邦移民执法行动。然而，在这些“庇护所”城市的中心，许多移民仍然容易被驱逐出境。本文介绍了一项社区运动，以识别，跟踪和阻止拘留和驱逐城市移民的机制：地方警察机构与联邦移民官员之间的数据共享。我们利用凯尔·沃克（Kyle Walker）（2015）的地方，规模和地方移民政治网络框架，来显示规模重叠的移民警务最终如何损害了芝加哥成为移民庇护所的承诺。