In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created to prevent terrorist attacks in the US.This led to dramatic increases in immigration law enforcement - raids, detentions and deportations have increased six-fold. Immigration Nation critically analyses the human rights impact of this tightening of US immigration policy. Golash-Boza reveals that it has had consequences not just for immigrants, but for citizens, families and communities. She shows that even though family reunification is officially a core component of US immigration policy, it has often torn families apart. This is a critical and revealing look at the real life - frequently devastating - impact of immigration policy in a security conscious world.

Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria

Introduction; Chapter 1 Roots of Immigration to the United States; Chapter 2 The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration Enforcement Regime of the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 3 Racism and the Consequences of U.S. Immigraton Policy; Chapter 4 The Impossible Choice; Chapter 5 The Immigration Industrial complex; conclusion Conclusion;