ePub The Story of the Jews : A 4;000-Year Adventure by Stan Mack in History

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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.In 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.Fernandes—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.