KALW, Your Call, July 29, 2010 Host Rose Aguilar
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These laws are going to have a real impact on policing. In these communities, immigrants are not going to be willing to trust law enforcement because they know that part of law enforcement’s mandate is to try and root out undocumented immigrants. And so if you’ve got a crime and you’ve got a witness, who might be lawful themselves, but they’re living with someone who’s undocumented, they may be unwilling to come forward as witness.

The Washington Independent, July 23, 2010 by Elise Foley
http://washingtonindependent.com/92374/kyl-pushes-for-expansion-of-operation-streamline

Aarti Kohli, immigration policy director at Berkeley Law’s Warren Institute, told me Operation Streamline should be reevaluated, not expanded. “It’s being used to spend large amounts [to criminally prosecute] the lowest level of offender,” she said. “The big question about Operation Streamline is whether it’s really effective.”

St. Petersburg News, PolitiFact.com, June 25, 2010 by Jan Brewer
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Kohli and others draw a clear distinction with Brewer’s suggestion that the majority of illegal border crossers are “drug mules.” “If caught along the southwest border, the vast majority of migrants are prosecuted in federal district court, often 70 at a time, for misdemeanor illegal entry,” Kohli said. “If they are caught smuggling drugs, they would not be prosecuted” in this way.

KALW-FM Crosscurrents, May 5, 2010 by Jude Joffe-Block
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“We feel like these programs are having an impact on policing. And immigrant communities as a result are becoming increasingly distrustful of police, and that is not a good phenomenon in terms of creating a safer community for everyone. If an immigrant is not willing to be a witness because they are afraid to interact with police, that doesn’t create a safer community.”

-Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2010 by Teresa Watanabe
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-deport1-2010apr01,0,3720769,print.story

“It is a travesty that this is happening without any judicial discretion,” said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy for Berkeley Law School’s Warren Institute. “We’re not saying you can’t deport people. We’re saying there should be a fair judicial process that takes into account the impact on their children.”

-Futurity.org, April 12, 2010 by Claudia Morain
http://futurity.org/society-culture/deportation-hurts-young-u-s-citizens/

“As Congress considers immigration reform, it’s time to focus on how the current system tears apart families and threatens the health and education of tens of thousands of children,” says Aarti Kohli.

“The rights to health and education are firmly entrenched in international human rights law, and nearly every major human rights treaty recognizes the need for special protection of children,” says Laurel Fletcher…. “The U.S. should consider revising its policy to mirror European human rights standards, which permit judges to balance a nation’s security interest with the best interests of the child when considering deporting a parent.”

Mother Jones, March/April 2010 by Adam Weinstein
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/texas-racist-laws-drinking-while-brown

“They were clearly choosing to bring more Hispanics into jail,” says Aarti Kohli, coauthor of the Berkeley study. But the feds and local officials hailed the PI sweeps as a victory. Immigration “is expanding this program, saying, ‘Isn’t this great?’” Kohli says. “But the question they’re not asking is: How are these people getting put into jail?”

San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 2009 by Aarti Kohli and Antonia Hernandez
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/EDF01A1TI1.DTL

The report supports what advocates in cities nationwide have been saying for a long time: These enforcement programs result in rampant racial profiling by local police.

-The Dallas Morning News, September 17, 2009 by Brandon Formby
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091709dnmetirvingcap.3d5e574.html

“We wanted just do a pure investigation of the data,” Kohli said. “When we did it, it was kind of amazing. If you look at the chart, you see how the spike happened.”

-The Dallas Morning News, September 24, 2009 by Brandon Formby
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-profiling_24met.ART.Central.Edition1.4bf3bd4.html

“We didn’t create the data,” she said. “We are an academic institution, and our reputation rests on our ability to do unbiased research. Why would we risk that?”