Media Source:

The 19th

Media URL:

https://19thnews.org/2026/04/trans-immigrants-prison-ice-deportation/

Date:

2026/04/15

Summary:

People convicted of crimes are expected to serve out their sentences. But increasingly, people are facing deportation after they’ve served those sentences, even if they are lawful permanent residents. As Lewis & Clark Professor Juliet Stumpf, whose research centers on what she terms as ‘crimmigration,’ explains, this adds an additional and severe layer of penalty, one to which lawful permanent residents are the most vulnerable.