Existing studies evaluate zero tolerance policies and the school-to-prison pipeline. Additional research identifies the role of criminal justice systems in deporting immigrants. Our work bridges these two literatures by discussing how immigrant students navigate the criminal justice system within schools. Using interviews with immigrant students, teachers, and administrators, we address the question: How is the school-to-deportation pipeline maneuvered by stakeholders? Our study identifies how school authority figures react to and even use the fear of the pipeline to (1) either protect students from becoming criminalized or (2) exclude students from standardized exam participation so as to maintain funding sources.

现有研究评估了零容忍政策和从学校到监狱的管道。其他研究确定了刑事司法系统在驱逐移民方面的作用。我们的工作通过讨论移民学生如何驾驭学校内的刑事司法系统，将这两种文献联系起来。通过对移民学生、教师和管理人员的采访，我们解决了一个问题：利益相关者如何操纵从学校到驱逐出境的管道？我们的研究确定了学校权威人士如何应对甚至利用对管道的恐惧来 (1) 保护学生免于被定罪或 (2) 将学生排除在标准化考试之外，以维持资金来源。