From deportation to prison : the politics of immigration enforcement in post/civil rights America / Patrisia Macøas-Rojas.

By:

Macias-Rojas, Patrisia [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781479858422

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JV6483 .F766 2016

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Contents:

Introduction -- The post/civil rights borderland : the Arizona-Sonora border -- Beds and biometrics : the legacy of the criminal alien program -- Protectors and prosecutors : humanitarianism and security -- Victims and culprits : deportation as a pipeline to prison -- The citizen and the criminal : the overreach of immigration enforcement -- A new enforcement terrain : criminal justice reforms and border security -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.

Summary: Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase? This book unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative - The Criminal Alien Program (CAP) - designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The post/civil rights borderland : the Arizona-Sonora border -- Beds and biometrics : the legacy of the criminal alien program -- Protectors and prosecutors : humanitarianism and security -- Victims and culprits : deportation as a pipeline to prison -- The citizen and the criminal : the overreach of immigration enforcement -- A new enforcement terrain : criminal justice reforms and border security -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.

Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase? This book unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative - The Criminal Alien Program (CAP) - designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons.

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