"Several recent #books paint a stark portrait of the uniquely expansive regime of #USpolicing and punishment, revealing what conventional wisdom gets wrong about its origins and scale and clarifying the obstacles to changing it."
Marie Gottschalk reviews #TheMigrantsJail, #TheHighestLawInTheLand, #TheMinneapolisReckoning, & #Copaganda
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-making-of-the-deportation-machine/
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![[rubrics] LAW, POLITICS
The Making of the Deportation Machine
The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.
Marie Gottschalk
image (photo, at left): Outside New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility in March 2025. Image: courtesy of Daniel J. Chacón / Sante Fe New Mexican](/proxy/post_attachment/991659/bcad53a324.png "[rubrics] LAW, POLITICS
The Making of the Deportation Machine
The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.
Marie Gottschalk
image (photo, at left): Outside New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility in March 2025. Image: courtesy of Daniel J. Chacón / Sante Fe New Mexican")