Courts Allow Detaining Once-Convicted Criminals
March 21, 2019
The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government can arrest and hold legal immigrants who are subject to deportation because they had committed crimes, even relatively minor ones and even if the individuals had served their time long ago. Some observers debate the fairness of this. But in any case, the nation has seen a merging of its criminal and immigration systems that is proving worrisome in various ways, a sociologist pointed out in Issues, and she called for a fuller examination of how this is separating people across society and how to make things better.