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RON JACOBS points out the role that incarceration plays in the super-exploitation of the poor, the black and the immigrant
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Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Silky Shah
Haymarket Books, £14.99
SILKY SHAH, the author of a new book on how many immigrants to the US are treated by the US government, has worked with the group Detention Watch Network for over 20 years.
Shah’s text is divided into three sections. The first provides a history of the last three decades, give or take a couple years, of US immigration policy.
It is here where Shah details the intersection between mass incarceration of US residents as the policy for controlling surplus populations, the crackdown on immigration, the growth of the prison-industrial complex and neoliberal capitalism.
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