Performing Prosecution: Press Releases and the Illusion of Immigration Enforcement

• In Event: The Executive and the Judiciary

Brief Overview

Using an original dataset of United States Attorney’s Office press releases, we examine the change in messaging on immigration cases and case processing in the turnover from the Biden administration to the second Trump administration.

Authors

• Matthew Baker, Emory University

• Ethan Drake Boldt, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Jason S. Byers, University of Connecticut

• Hayley Munir, Illinois State University