Alumni Daniel Martinez ’04 is co-author on a July report from the American Immigration Council looking at criminalization of immigrants in the United States.
“The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States” looks at the way immigration policies are crafted in the United States to include broad consequences for even minor criminal behavior by immigrants, despite the fact that studies have shown immigrants are less likely than native-born U.S. citizens to commit a crime.
The report was recently featured in a January New York Times article.
Martinez co-authored the report for the American Immigration Council with Walter Ewing, senior researcher at the American Immigration Council and Rubén Rumbaut, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Martinez is an assistant professor of sociology and inaugural director of the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute at George Washington University. He researches undocumented border crossing deaths along the Arizona-Sonora border and was co-principal investigator of the Migrant Border Crossing Study, a Ford Foundation-funded research project. He co-majored in business economics and Spanish at St. Cloud State.
