Episode 29: From Deportation to Prison with Arianna Salgado

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. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, the findings in this book reveal how the Criminal Alien Program quietly set off a punitive turn in immigration enforcement that has fundamentally altered detention, deportation, and criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses. This episode, we talk with our friend and organizer with Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Arianna Salgado, about this history and its daily implications.

Key Questions:

1. Why have criminal prosecutions for immigration increased so dramatically in the past 20 years?
2. How is the right-wing backlash to the Civil Rights movement connected to immigration enforcement?
3. How have the policies and practices of mass incarceration impacted the policies of deportation?
4. What is the history of ICE? Has it always existed?
5. What is the relationship between anti-Blackness and immigration?

Guest: Arianna Salgado
Hosts: Page May & Monica Trinidad
Date: October 9, 2017 
Length: 44:01