Elizabeth Cohen quoted in TIME article on future of VOICE

May 17, 2021

TIME

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Crime & Violence

Federal

U.S. Immigration

United States

TIME

One of Donald Trump’s first moves as president was to create a new office that highlighted crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. For four years, the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office (VOICE) was used by the White House to perpetuate Trump’s false narrative of an immigrant crime wave. The VOICE office was an integral part of the effort to "trawl for anecdotes to then trumpet and publicize because there wasn’t good data to demonstrate that there’s a massive problem with non-citizen criminality," says Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science and expert on immigration. She was quoted in the TIME article, "Trump Created an Office That Highlighted Immigrant Crime. Biden's DHS Plans to Keep It."