crimmigration

Noun

crimmigration (usually uncountable, plural crimmigrations)

1. (derogatory, slang, usually) Illegal immigration.
   • This use of membership theory places the law on the edge of a crimmigration crisis. Only the harshest elements of each area of law make their way into the criminalization of immigration law, and the apparatus of the state is used to expel from society those deemed criminally alien.2006, The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime and Sovereign Power, American University Law Review, volume 56, issue 2, article 3
   • In the last decade, legal scholars have noted with alarm the increasing alignment between immigration enforcement and the goals and methods of the criminal justice system, terming this alignment "crimmigration." Although discussions of race and nativism have played a large part in this analysis...2012, Commentary: Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, volume 27, issue 1, article 1

   Synonyms:

   illegal immigration