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Excellent article " The New Political Economy of Immigration"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The New Political Economy of Immigration By Tom Barry This article is from the January/February 2009 issue of Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice available at http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2009/0109barry.html The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 drastically altered the traditional political economy of immigration. The millions of undocumented immigrants?those who crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas?who were living and working in the United States were no longer simply regarded as a shadow population or as surplus cheap labor. In the public and policy debate, immigrants were increasingly defined as threats to the nation?s security. Categorizing immigrants as national security threats gave the government?s flailing immigration law-enforcement and border- control operations a new unifying logic that has propelled the immigrant crackdown forward...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).