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Penn Law Professor Finds "Crimmigration" Disproportionately Impacts Latinos

October 11, 2011 (1 min read)

"The days of widely tolerated prejudice against Latino individuals in the United States have long passed. But in a recent paper, "Perpetuating the Marginalization of Latinos: A Collateral Consequence of the Incorporation of Immigration Law into the Criminal Justice System," University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Yolanda Vazquez argues that crimmigration – the comingling of criminal and immigration law – has replaced overt discrimination as the modern day apparatus for extending a history of Latino exclusion, discrimination, and marginalization in this country."

Penn Law, Oct. 10, 2011.