TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macias-Rojas,Patrisia
TI  - From deportation to prison: the politics of immigration enforcement in post/civil rights America 
T2  - The latina/o sociology series
SN  - 9781479858422
AV  - JV6483 .F766 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Immigration enforcement
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Social control
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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