Shackled (eBook)

92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air

Rebecca A. Sharpless (Autor)

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2024
232 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39095-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.
 
In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 African refugees for two days while attempting to deport them by plane to Somalia. When national media broke the story, government officials lied about what happened. Shackled tells the story of this harrowing failed deportation, the resulting class action litigation, and two men's search for safety in the United States over the course of three long years.

Through Abdulahi's and Sa'id's firsthand accounts, immigration lawyer Rebecca A. Sharpless brings to life the harsh consequences of the U.S. deportation system and how racism and anti-Blackness operate within it. Sharpless follows the money that ICE funnels into local jails, private contractors, and charter jets, exposing a sprawling system of immigration enforcement that detains and abuses noncitizens at scale. Woven with the wider context of Abdulahi's and Sa'id's stories, this immigration odyssey reveals disturbing truths about Somalia, asylum, and the U.S. court system. Shackled will galvanize readers—attorneys, activists, policymakers, and scholars alike—to call out and dismantle this brutal infrastructure.

Inhalt

Contents

Preface 

Part I
1 ICE Air 
2 On the Tarmac 
3 Civil War 
4 Shiqaal Subclan 
5 Foreigner 
6 The Struggle 
7 Glades County Jail 
8 Krome Service Processing Center 

Part II
9 Stay of Deportation 
10 Jurisdiction 
11 Contempt of Court 
12 Motion to Reopen 
13 Day in Court 
14 Journey’s End 
Epilogue 

Acknowledgments 
Sources and Notes 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Activists • advocates • African immigrants • detain • escape violent persecution • Federal court • flights • freedom • Human Rights • immigrant rights • law school students • Love • mass deportation • Migrants • Narrative nonfiction • policing • private prison • refugee camps • slave trade • smugglers • Somalia • Studies • Survival • systematic abuse • Unjust • US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Air Operations
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39095-4 / 0520390954
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39095-9 / 9780520390959