Detention By Design
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As recently as 1955, there were virtually no immigrants held in detention in the U.S. Today, the federal government holds tens of thousands each day, in 130 facilities across the country. But the story of how we got here did not start at the U.S.-Mexico border - it started on Florida\\u2019s shores, 50 years ago.
\\n\\nThrough personal histories and meticulously compiled archival materials, Detention By Design will tell how the arrival of Haitian and Cuban migrants by boat in the 1970s and 1980s \\u2014and the crude experiments in small Florida jails that followed\\u2014 shaped the immigration and detention system that we have in this country today. WLRN's Danny Rivero hosts.
\\n\\nThis second episode of Detention By Design follows the revealing story of Abel Jean-Simon Zephyr, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by boat in 1973. He asked for political asylum, but authorities \\u2014caught flat-footed\\u2014 paid the sheriff's office at remote Immokalee, Florida, to hold him and others at its tiny jail. It marked the miserable, and at times tragic, beginning of the modern immigration detention system.
\\n\\nDetention by Design is funded by The Shepard Broad Foundation.
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