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  • Das, Alina, author.
     
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  • Immigrants -- United States -- History.
     
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  • Noncitizen criminals -- United States.
     
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  • Noncitizens -- Government policy -- United States.
     
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  • United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
     
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  • United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
     
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    No justice in the shadows : how America criminalizes immigrants / Alina Das.
    by Das, Alina, author.
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    New York : Bold Type Books, 2020.
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  • Immigrants -- United States -- History.
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  • Noncitizen criminals -- United States.
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  • Noncitizens -- Government policy -- United States.
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  • United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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  • United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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    9781568589466 (hardcover) :
    1568589468 (hardcover) :
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    257 pages ; 25 cm
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    First edition.
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    "This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine." The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record -- so-called "criminal aliens" -- the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related. These individuals are uprooted and banished from their homes, their families, and their communities. Through the stories of those caught in the system, Das traces the ugly history of immigration policy to explain how the U.S. constructed the idea of the "criminal alien," effectively dividing immigrants into the categories "good" and "bad," "deserving" and "undeserving." As Das argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all."--Publisher.
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