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The Business of Migrant Detention

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Early Migrant Jailing and Local Profit Motives

The 1903 Malone case: Chinese migrants warehoused in county jails, sheriffs paid per detainee, habeas corpus challenges, deaths in custody, and the 1904 federal ruling expanding deportation power.

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