Donald Trump infamously targeted immigrants -- and many rejoiced when he left office.  But, as historian Elliott Young points out, the criminalization of immigrants has been a bipartisan affair, going back 140 years.  He discusses the intersection of mass incarceration and the detention of immigrants.

Resources:

Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System [1] Oxford University Press, 2021

Migration Scholar Collaborative [2]

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forever-prisoners-9780190085957?cc=us&lang=en&

[2] https://migrationcollab.umn.edu/