Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
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America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmareâ€”a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque U.S. Homeland Security system. She documents how in post-9/11 America immigrants have come to be deemed a national security threat.
Fernandesâ€”herself an immigrant well-acquainted with U.S. immigration proceduresâ€”takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, detention and deportation. She argues that since 9/11, the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for businesses who are helping to enforce the crackdown on immigrants, creating a growing "Immigration Industrial Complex." She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that influence our new immigration legislation.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2007-01-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781583227282

Country	USA
Brand	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
Binding	Paperback
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2007-01-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781583227282

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

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