Breaking Down The U.S. Deportation Machine
The United States runs on migrant labor. That\u2019s been the case for most of this country\u2019s history, and the demand for cheap workers over the past two centuries led to waves of immigration from China, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, especially Mexico. This trend also led to the creation of the deportation machine. That\u2019s how Adam Goodman, a professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes the U.S.\u2019s systemic efforts to expel noncitizens. In his recent book, "The Deportation Machine: America\u2019s Long History of Expelling Immigrants", Goodman explores how today\u2019s \u201ccountry of immigrants\u201d is built on a long history of deportation.