Making Contact - The Penalty is Exile: How Immigration and Criminalization Collide

Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. We’re told many of those people are criminals who’ve broken more than just immigration law. On this edition, producer Cory Fischer-Hoffman takes a closer look at how immigration and the criminal justice system work together, to detain and deport hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Alex Alvarez, deported immigrant; Abraham Paolos, Families For Freedom director; Tanya Golash Boza, author “Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post 9-11 America”, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement director; Michelle Fei, Immigrant Defense Project co-director; Lili Salmeron, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights organizer.

For More Information:

Families for Freedom

http://familiesforfreedom.org/

Immigrant Defense Project

http://immigrantdefenseproject.org/

Videos, articles, etc:

‘Secure Communities’ and the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement: Lessons from
New York State

https://nacla.org/blog/2012/7/11/secure-communities-and-us-immigrant-rights-movement-lessons-new-york-state

Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post 9-11 America

http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=243384

As New York Debates Secure Communities Program, Study Challenges the
HomelandSecurity Policy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcs79Aff6To

Detention Watch Network Deplores Latest Anti-Immigrant Hearing in Congress