Comprehensive study of Latinx U.S. immigration agents shows economic self-interest drives decisions to join ICE
Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 09:01
in Psychology & Sociology
With the goal of addressing why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong, David Cortez, assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, conducted the largest and most diverse study yet of U.S. immigration agents and his results are now published in Political Research Quarterly. He found that Latinxs—regardless of their preferred national/ethnic identity, their identification with the immigrant experience or their attitude toward immigrants—choose to work in immigration for their own economic interest.