{"product_id":"from-deportation-to-prison-patrisia-macas-rojas-9781479804665","title":"From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCriminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatrisia Mac?s-Rojas presents a \"street-level\" perspective on how this new regime has serious lived implications for the day-to-day actions of Border Patrol agents, local law enforcement, civil and human rights advocates, and for migrants and residents of predominantly Latina\/o border communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrisia Mac?s-Rojas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479804665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479804665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2017","brand":"Patrisia Mac?s-Rojas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935642616063,"sku":"9781479804665","price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fa6cdf1b-97f6-437a-96b9-5826542c5bc5.jpg?v=1681420997","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-deportation-to-prison-patrisia-macas-rojas-9781479804665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}