From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America by Patrisia Macías-Rojas unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative—The Criminal Alien Program (CAP)—designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons.
In this episode, Monica and Page talk with their friend and organizer with Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Arianna Salgado, about this history and its daily implications.
