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More copies of this ISBN:Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigrationby Deepa Fernandes
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Every year the American Dream inspires hundreds of thousands of people to risk their savings-and their lives-to enter the United States in search of a better life. 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 US Homeland Security system: immigrants, non-citizens and undocumented workers. Deepa-herself an immigrant well-acquainted with US 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, and detention. Fernandes argues that since 9/11 the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that simultaneously constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for a growing "Immigration Industrial Complex."She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that have successfully infiltrated and influenced the writing of the country's immigration legislation. Deepa Fernandes is a radio journalist for Pacifica Radio whose award-winning work has aired on the BBC World Service, and National Public Radio. Her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, In These Timesand 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 and lawyers who are challenging the Bush administrations policies. Book News Annotation:Fernandes (host of Wakeup Call, a daily morning show on New York City
radio station WBAI) issues a broad attack on the current state of US
immigration policy. Weaving in numerous and often tragic personal
stories of those affected, she discusses the militarization of the
southern border, describes the scope of the immigration detention and
deportation machinery, and describes the discriminatory nature of the
US asylum track for immigration. For the latter two issues, she
discusses the particular case of Haitian immigrants and asylum
seekers. The nature of the foreign student and foreign worker
programs are discussed, once again highlighting the issue of
discrimination. She then turns to the primary drivers of current US
immigration policy, including the security-industrial complex and
white nationalists, with their undue influence on the legislative
agenda.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorDeepa Fernandes is an young, award-winning radio and print journalist who has reported from around the globe for the BBC News, NPR, Australia Broadcasting Corporation, ABC News, the Village Voice and anothers. She is host of the nationally broadcast program Free Speech Radio News. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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