Criminalizing Immigrants

Published: April 12, 2021, noon

Donald Trump infamously targeted immigrants \u2014 and many rejoiced when he left office.\xa0 But, as historian Elliott Young points out, the criminalization of immigrants has been a bipartisan affair, going back 140 years.\xa0 He discusses the intersection of mass incarceration and the detention of immigrants.\nResources:\nElliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World\u2019s Largest Immigrant Detention System Oxford University Press, 2021\nMigration Scholar Collaborative\nThe post Criminalizing Immigrants appeared first on KPFA.