Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

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Overview

America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque U.S. Homeland Security system. She documents how in post-9/11 America immigrants have come to be deemed a national security threat.
Fernandes—herself an immigrant well-acquainted with U.S. immigration procedures—takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, detention and deportation. She argues that since 9/11, the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for businesses who are helping to enforce the crackdown on immigrants, creating a growing "Immigration Industrial Complex." She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that influence our new immigration legislation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583229545
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 01/04/2011
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 402 KB

About the Author

DEEPA FERNANDES is the host of the popular morning show, "Wakeup call" on Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City. Her award-winning radio features have aired on the BBC World Service, and Public Radio International. Her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times, and the New York Amsterdam News. Targeted, her first book, is the result of four years of research collecting narratives from immigrants as well as human rights groups, community organizers and lawyers who are challenging the Bush Administration's policies.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     9
Foreword   Howard Zinn     13
Preface     21
Prologue     27
Part I
The Border Crackdown     35
Roundups and Registration, Detention and Deportation     73
The End of Asylum as We Know It?     111
Foreign Students, Foreign Workers, and Military Naturalization     145
Part II
The Immigration-Industrial Complex: Booming Business at the Expense of Immigrant Rights?     169
U.S. Immigration Policy and Racism: How White Supremacists Are Writing Immigration Policy and Democrats Are Asleep at the Wheel     201
Epilogue     239
Afterword     245
Notes     249
Index     287
About the Authors     303
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