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The potential diagnostic significance of prior family referral to Child Protective Services (CPS) in cases of sudden infant death is unknown. Therefore, the authors retrospectively searched for CPS data for the 5-year referral history on all 533 families whose infants died suddenly from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), other natural diseases, accidents, or inflicted injuries and underwent postmortem examination by the medical examiner during a 10-year period. No family had more than one infant death. At least 27% of the families in each group had at least one CPS referral. The data suggest that a family's referral to CPS prior to their sudden death of their infant does not increase the likelihood that it was caused by inflicted injuries, and prior referral should not preclude a diagnosis of SIDS. The authors recommend future prospective studies that include refined exposure histories and that are large enough to have sufficient statistical power to compare family CPS referrals and outcomes in groups of infants who died suddenly with a matched group of living infants.

This dissertation asks how the ethnic Mexican community in Southern California struggled for full societal membership while a large proportion of their constituency were noncitizens and therefore targets of border enforcement policies? These violations, due to racialist presumptions of border enforcement, not only affected immigrants, but also U.S. citizens of Mexican heritage. I demonstrate that beginning in the 1920s and continuing to the present, with particular highlight on the "Chicano movement" of the 1960s and 70s, a number of activists responded to this conundrum by forging a conception of community across differences in nationality (American and Mexican) and citizenship status (U.S. citizens and Mexican immigrants). This more fluid, transnational conception of a "Chicano- Mexicano" community was chiefly developed through the spectrum of a shared ethnicity and culture coupled with the experience of racialization by border enforcement immigration policies. Transnational and cross-citizenship solidarity within the ethnic Mexican community was forged in the context of struggle against more narrowly nationalistic forces both within and outside the community. In recognition of this vexing context, my dissertation explores the activism emanating from the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR) led by Herman Baca, a printer from the barrios of southeast San Diego County. Building off the cross-citizenship activism of Mexican- American labor activists of the previous generation, the CCR utilized a grassroots approach to mobilizing by basing itself in and interacting with working-class Latina/o community members to assess key social problems and develop solutions to them. Mobilizing as a united ethno- racial community in classic Chicano movement style, the CCR moved into addressing class issues through engagement with the capital-labor antagonism embedded within immigration policy. This community-based effort engaged constituents initially through voter registration and later through providing community services to undocumented migrants, going door-to-door calling issues-based meetings in communal places such as the local church, and establishing an open presence out of Baca's printing shop in the main commercial strip of the city. In this way, the CCR stayed attuned to the demographic transformations occurring in the Latina/o community in the 1970s, namely the mass influx of new migrant laborers, many of whom were undocumented

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Appendices dated December 20, 2002 ; Vol. 2: Technical appendices ; "June 2003." ; Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 149-155) ; Mode of access: Internet.

This thesis analyzes immigration enforcement and detention in San Diego County and North Carolina, using ethnographic interviews, local media, public records, and other data. It finds that immigration enforcement practices historically confined to the border are in many ways moving into the interior, largely through local law enforcement collaborations with federal immigration officials. This analysis argues that both regions see expanding local law enforcement collaboration with federal immigration agencies. Secure Communities in both regions, Operation Stonegarden in San Diego County, and 287 g in North Carolina support this argument. It also finds that enforcement in each region occurs as a "patchwork". The patchwork results in part from varied local responses to immigration and the ongoing dialectics between local, state, and federal policy realms. The paper demonstrates this "patchwork" through analyses of contrasting 287 g partnerships in Wake and Durham Counties in North Carolina, varied patterns of local law enforcement referrals to the Border Patrol in San Diego County, and Operation Joint Effort, a unique enforcement collaboration between the Escondido Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The thesis situates enforcement Immigration enforcement