{"product_id":"9781583229545","title":"Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration","description":"America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.\u003cbr\u003eIn Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque U.S. Homeland Security system. She documents how in post-9\/11 America immigrants have come to be deemed a national security threat.\u003cbr\u003eFernandes—herself an immigrant well-acquainted with U.S. immigration procedures—takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, detention and deportation. She argues that since 9\/11, the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for businesses who are helping to enforce the crackdown on immigrants, creating a growing \"Immigration Industrial Complex.\" She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that influence our new immigration legislation.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132976709872,"sku":"9781583229545","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781583229545_p0.jpg?v=1763802414","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781583229545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}