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Brutal Borders? Examining the Treatment of Deportees During Arrest and Detention
- Social Forces
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 85, Number 1, September 2006
- pp. 93-109
- 10.1353/sof.2006.0137
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Recent legislation has produced a dramatic rise in the detention and removal of immigrants from the United States. Drawing on interviews with a random sample of Salvadoran deportees, we examine treatment during arrest and detention. Our findings indicate: (1) deportees are often subject to verbal harassment, procedural failings and use of force; (2) force tends to be excessive; (3) force is more common against deportees than citizens; (4) situational contingencies and organizational actors influence force, but ecological settings do not.