Position Taking on the Party Agenda: Explaining the Decision to Cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act Among House Democrats

• In Event: Varieties of Representation

Brief Overview

This paper seeks to explain why some House Democrats cosponsored the recently re-introduced Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act –a bill that seeks to curb immigrant detention and phase out the use of private immigrant detention facilities.

Authors

• Jason L. Morin, California State University-Northridge

• Loren Collingwood, University of California-Riverside