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The Desperate Need for an Immigration Overhaul
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 68, Number 1, Winter 2021
- pp. 50-53
- 10.1353/dss.2021.0007
- Article
- Additional Information
ABSTRACT:
In January, Joe Biden will inherit an immigration system that is significantly more broken than it was when he left the White House in 2017. His first challenge will be to stop the bleeding—to address the massive human rights violations at the border and restore protections that were revoked by the Trump White House. But his administration is not likely to resolve the structural injustice woven into the immigration enforcement apparatus: a system of incarceration and expulsion that saw more deportations under the Obama administration than any other in history.