Deportation Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/deportation/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Deportation Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/deportation/ 32 32 The Future of Migration https://www.publicbooks.org/the-future-of-migration/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27498 In 2008, in a town of about 2,000 people, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 389 workers and charged them with civil immigration violations and identity theft. The Bush administration had decided to experiment with mass workplace arrests and assembly-line judicial proceedings. The target was a kosher meatpacking plant in rural Postville, Iowa. What most […]

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]]> The Big Picture: The Promise of Sanctuary https://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-promise-sanctuary/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:00:01 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=17092 In June 2015, during the early days of his candidacy during the Republican primaries, Donald Trump declared: “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” These sentences seemed to signify a new low in anti-Latino speech, but they are not new. […]

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]]> The Big Picture: Criminalizing Immigrants https://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture-criminalizing-immigrants/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:00:43 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=16740 Peering out the windows of John F. Kennedy Airport in the early morning hours of January 29, 2017, I had hope for this country’s future on immigration policy. Hundreds of ordinary New Yorkers were still gathered outside the airport protesting the first iteration of President Trump’s Muslim Ban. Inside the airport, desperate but resilient individuals […]

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