Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants

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Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants

Title remainder

America's obsession with locking up immigrants

Statement of responsibility

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Creator

• García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc,

Author

• García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc,

Subject

• Detention of persons
• Detention of persons -- United States
• Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
• Emigration and immigration law
• Emigration and immigration law -- United States
• Alien detention centers
• LAW -- Emigration & Immigration
• Undocumented immigrants -- Government policy -- United States
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy
• Illegal aliens -- Government policy
• Detention centers for noncitizens -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding. In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernAndez takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and he looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law. Interspersed with powerful stories of people caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry, including children who have spent most of their lives in immigrant detention, Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of the United States: who belongs and on what criteria is that determination made'

Cataloging source

EBLCP

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Index

no index present

LC call number

JV6483

LC item number

.G37 2019eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography