From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post Civil Rights America
From Deportation to Prison 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. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, the findings in this book reveal how the Criminal Alien Program quietly set off a punitive turn in immigration enforcement that has fundamentally altered detention, deportation, and criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses.