Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement
From The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition by The Lawfare Institute
April 30, 2026 · 41 min
About this episode
Tyler McBrien interviews Chinmayi Sharma about the dangers of privatized and automated immigration enforcement in the U.S.
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Chinmayi Sharma , an associate professor at Fordham Law School and a contributing editor at Lawfare , to discuss Sharma’s forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries.” They discuss the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement—which Sharma describes as “a code-based Leviathan—cloaked in the veneer of legal legitimacy yet operating outside traditional democratic channels”—and how private technology vendors entrench their positions within that system. Sharma also walks through a number of proposals for states and other sub-federal entities to counteract these harms to immigrants, society, and the rule of law itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Tyler McBrien
Guest: Chinmayi Sharma
Topics covered
- immigration enforcement
- privatization
- automation
- legal legitimacy
- democratic channels
- technology vendors
- proposals for reform
Keywords
- immigration
- enforcement
- privatization
- automation
- law review
- democracy
- technology
- reform proposals
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fordham Law School, Lawfare
Books & works: Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries
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