Emmanuel Malion

So as a scholar that studies primarily policing, criminal procedure, the rights that we have secured against the government in that realm, I'm certainly very concerned about violations of the Fourth Amendment, that's unreasonable searches and seizures, warrantless searches and seizures, certainly some Fifth Amendment due process violations of

Invocations of the right to silence, violations of Miranda, certainly we've seen in the last month or so violations of access to counsel, for example.

All of these things are fundamental rights which ensure the fairness and justice to the extent that they can of people's interactions with the criminal legal process and some civil legal processes.

And to the extent that these are violated, it essentially robs individuals of the ability to have their fair day in court.

No, I have not been stopped by ICE, certainly not yet, but it is an ever-present concern, I would say.

And so I do live in Minneapolis now.

I grew up in the city, so I'm returning after about 20 years away with my recent position at the University of Minnesota.

My interest in policing, and in particular in the questions of race and policing, have stemmed from past experiences with police that have involved very explicit racial stereotyping, targeting, explicit epithets, being arrested without a basis, being threatened with deportation despite the fact that I was a citizen.

And so that's all personal background that animates my work.

professional interest, but certainly in this moment, the line between the two is bleeding quite quickly.

I'd say about 20 years ago, I was arrested and charged with a crime that I did not commit.

But while I was in jail here in Hennepin County, I was brought at some point in time to a room that was very quickly apparent to me was all Latinos.

And

I got the inkling that something was going to happen, and I had this strange interaction, you know, with a well-meaning, I think, government attorney who was speaking broken Spanish to me as I was responding in English as I am speaking on the radio today, telling me that because I was born in Mexico, I was at risk of deportation.

And, you know, I explained clearly that I was a citizen and that they could not deport me.

But I think that this goes to the logic that just some markers, immediate markers like that,

Just put you into a lane where the presumption is that you're an outsider to the country.

Sure.

So it's been challenging here.

Certainly this operation has been ongoing for about eight weeks now.