El Paso County law enforcement officials are more likely to ask first-generation Mexican immigrants and their U.S-born children about their citizenship status, according to research conducted by two faculty members and a graduate student from The University of Texas at El Paso. The research paper, “Variations in Citizenship Profiling by Generational Status: Individuals and Neighborhood Characteristics of Latina/os Questioned by Law Enforcement about Their Legal Status,” was published earlier this summer in “Race and Social Problems,” a highly respected interdisciplinary academic journal.