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Immigrants in Alabama Can Face Harsher Sentences Than Citizens for the Same Crimes

“‘Judges tend to sentence noncitizens to longer sentences than U.S. citizens,’ said Juliet Stumpf, a professor at Lewis and Clark Law School who studies the intersection of immigration and criminal justice. ‘And there’s some theories about why that’s true, but some of them have to do with maybe the judges or prosecutors who are asking for these longer sentences are seeing these particular noncitizens as more dangerous or more undesirable.” 

…A bill in Congress would take that further, adding extra prison time to all undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies in state and federal court. If it passes, Stumpf said, it could lead to many more instances of the type of disparities that have been playing out in Alabama and beyond. She said the law essentially would create a blueprint by which the court system could mete out vastly different punishments for two defendants identical in every way except their citizenship status — even those who committed the same crime together.

‘That would be a serious departure from the principles of our nation’s criminal law system,’ Stumpf said, ‘which focus on a person’s actions, not their status, when imposing punishment.’”

ProPublica, December 15

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