ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a critical historical analysis of Operation Streamline broadly, as well as a summary of the development of the Arizona Denial Prosecution Initiative in Tucson specifically. This demonstrates how these programs are the product of an increasingly criminalized and racialized immigration regime in the United States. In reviewing how larger macro systems impact the ways in which legal professionals implement this policy day after day, year after year, the forces of history come to bear on contemporary understandings of both work-related role identities for attorneys’ and judges’ social identities such as race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender.
