Detained and deported

By Margaret Regan

Subjects: United states, emigration and immigration, Immigrants, united states, Case studies, Immigrants, Government policy, Arizona, politics and government, Emigration and immigration, government policy, Immigrant families, Emigration and immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Family, united states, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration

Description: "The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at a rate never before seen in American history. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from their families, sometimes for years. Deportees are dropped off unceremoniously in sometimes dangerous Mexican border towns, or flown back to crime-ridden Central American nations. Many of the deported have lived in the United States for years, and have U.S. citizen children; despite the legal consequences, many cross the border again. Using volatile Arizona as a case study of the system, Margaret Regan conjures up the harshness of the detention centers hidden away the countryside and travels to Mexico and Guatemala to report on the fate of deportees stranded far from their families in the United States"--