Other People's Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade

ISBN-13: 9780367317119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Robert S Kahn

Opis

During the 1980s hundreds of thousands of refugees fled civil wars and death squads in Central America, seeking safe haven in the United States. Instead, thousands found themselves incarcerated in immigration prisons?abused by their jailors and deprived of the most basic legal and human rights. Drawing on declassified government documents and inter

Spis treści

Introduction -- The Border is a Third Country -- Murder By Remote Control -- The Corralon -- Washington, D.C. -- Laredo -- Florence Prison -- Oakdale -- Children of the Contras -- Brownsville -- Other People's Blood

O autorze

Robert S. Kahn is a newspaper editor and freelance writer in California. His investigations of INS abuses in immigration prisons have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, and the National Catholic Reporter.