Violation of Latino Civil Rights Resulting from Ins and Local Police's Use of Race, Culture and Class Profiling: The Case of the Chandler Roundup in Arizona
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INS AND LOCAL POLICE'S USE OF RACE, CULTURE AND
CLASS PROFILING: THE CASE OF THE CHANDLER ROUNDUP
IN ARIZONA
MARY ROMERO
MARWAH SERAG'
I. OVERVIEW OF THE CHANDLER ROUNDUP ........................... 81
II. URBAN POLICING PRACTICES AND
CONSTRUCTING CITIZENSHIP .............................................. 83
III. MICRO AND MACROAGGRESSIONS AND
IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT ................................... 85
IV. CITIZENSHIP SOCIALIZATION AND
IMMIGRATION CONTROL .................................................... 91
V . CONCLUSION ....................................................................... 95
On July 30, 1997, Q was running [a] little late picking up her daughters,
age 7 and 10, from Fry School in Chandler, so the girls started walking
home. When Q caught up with them, half a block from school, the girls
were crying. Q asked why they were in tears and they told Q, It is your
fault, and asked, What is a birth certificate? The girls pointed down
the street and said that the officers told us to keep our birth certificates
with us or they will send us back to Mexico. Both girls kept saying,
Mom, we don't know Mexico. In order to verify who had stopped her
daughters, Q put the girls in her vehicle and began to drive in the direction
the girls said the officers had gone. Q saw three Chandler Police officers
on bicycles not far from the school. No INS/Border Patrol agents were in
sight. Now, when someone is at the door, the girls hide, bundle up with
each other, and ask their mother not to open the door because maybe it is
1Mary Romero is Professor, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University; Ph.D. in
Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder. Marwah Serag received a B.S. Degree at
Arizona State University. She began this project as an Honors Justice Studies undergraduate
student enrolled in a research apprenticeship with Professor Romero. An aspiring legal
advocate, Marwah shares Professor Romero's passion for social equality. This research
opportunity will be the first in a career dedicated to fighting injustice, and defending civil
rights. This paper was presented at the 2003 Annual LatCrit Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
We are grateful for the thoughtful comments we received from Ronald Mize and Kevin
Johnson. We are thankful to Clara N. R. Romero for graciously answering last minute
questions that helped clarify our analysis. We appreciate the research assistance from students
in the Honors College at Arizona State University: Diana Chu, Nicole 0. Baron, and Michelle
Renee Malonzo; and research assistance from Justice Studies graduate students, Rosalee
Gonzalez and Bibi Stephens. Ed Delci and Dr. Virginia Pesqueira generously offered
information about the community protests and lawsuits.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/clevslr52&div=10&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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