Introduction: Understanding the Machine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Introduction: Understanding the Machine 1
4. ONE. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9
5. TWO. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback 37
6. THREE. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation 73
7. FOUR. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion 107
8. FIVE. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts 134
9. SIX. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration 164
10. Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine 197
11. Note on Sources and Language 207
12. Acknowledgments 211
13. Notes 217
14. Index 311