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Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire Margaret Regan
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Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
Margaret Regan
An intimate look at the individuals ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at an unprecedented rate. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from their families, sometimes for years. Deportees are dropped off in sometimes dangerous Mexican border towns or flown back to crime-ridden Central American nations. Many of the deported have lived here for years and have children who are US citizens; despite the possibly dire consequences, many return to cross the border again.
Using volatile Arizona as a case study, journalist Margaret Regan portrays the harshness of the detention centers hidden away in the countryside and travels to Mexico and Guatemala to report on the fate of deportees stranded far from their families in the United States. Drawing on firsthand accounts and eyewitness reports, Detained and Deported is a humanizing and rare glimpse into the lives of those caught up in the US immigration enforcement cycle. Giving special attention to the separation of families and the treatment of women, Regan argues that increasingly draconian detention and deportation policies have broadened police powers and enriched an industry whose profits are derived from human incarceration.
272 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 10, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807071946 |
| Publishers | Beacon Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 228 × 31 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
