Virtual Book Launch: THE DEPORTATION MACHINE by Adam Goodman

Please join us for the virtual launch celebration of the The Deportation Machine. For this event, local author Adam Goodman will be joined by Antonio Gutierrez of Organized Communities Against Deportation.

Register HERE for this free event. Attendees who register through Eventbrite will receive an email with the access link to the event: https://http://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-book-launch-the-deportation-machine-by-adam-goodman-tickets-109700328636

In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. He reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms--formal deportations, voluntary departures, and self-deportations--and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.