Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire Audiobook (Free)

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the united states detention and deportation program, the biggest in the world

On a bright Phoenix morning hours, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house encircled by a platoon of federal government immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported towards the rough border town of Nogales, Sonora, with nothing but the clothes on her behalf back again. Her two-year-old child and fifteen-year-old kid, about Detained and Deported: Tales of Immigrant Households Under Open fire both American citizens, were taken by the condition of Arizona and consigned to foster care. Their mother’s only criminal offense: living undocumented in the United States.

Immigrants like Elena, who’ve lived in america for years, are being detained and deported at unparalleled rates. Thousands languish in detention centers-often torn off their families-for months or even years. Deportees are came back to violent Central American nations or unceremoniously fell off in dangerous Mexican border towns. Regardless of the dangers from the desert crossing, many immigrants will slip across the boundary again, halting at nothing to go back home to their children.

Drawing on years of reporting in the Arizona-Mexico borderlands, journalist Margaret Regan tells their poignant tales. Inside the massive Eloy Detention Middle, a for-profit personal prison in Arizona, she meets detainee Yolanda Fontes, a mother separated from her three small kids. Within a Nogales soup kitchen, deportee Gustavo Sanchez, a young father who’d lived in Phoenix since the age group of eight, agonizes about the risks of the journey back.

Regan demonstrates how more and more draconian detention and deportation insurance policies have broadened law enforcement forces, while enriching an exclusive prison sector whose profits derive from human being suffering. She also records the rise of level of resistance, profiling activists and young immigrant “Dreamers” who are fighting for the privileges of the undocumented.

Engaging and heart-wrenching, Detained and Deported presents a rare glance in to the lives of people ensnared in America’s immigration dragnet.