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Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Seven Stories Press
July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
303 pages
ISBN: 1583227288
EAN: 9781583227282
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Political
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 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 and lawyers who are challenging the Bush
administrations policies.
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