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Ana Raquel Minian

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  • Mexican immigrants huddled in a cage during Operation Wetback.

    Trump's Deportation Model

    A 1950s mass deportation campaign shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.
    by Ana Raquel Minian via Dissent on October 31, 2024
  • Migrants being processed by the U.S. Border Patrol at a new makeshift camp after crossing the US-Mexico border.

    America Turned Against Migrant Detention Before

    Detaining migrants is pointless. American history proves it.
    by Ana Raquel Minian via TIME on May 30, 2024
  • A group of migrants standing behind a chain-link fence with barbed wire in El Paso, Texas, trying to seek asylum.

    The Long History of the U.S. Immigration Crisis

    How Washington outsources its dirty work.
    by Ana Raquel Minian via Foreign Affairs on March 15, 2022
  • A private security guard throws a soccer ball back inside the Tornillo detention camp for migrant teens in Tornillo, Texas, Dec. 13, 2018.

    A Historian on How Trump’s Wall Rhetoric Changes Lives in Mexico

    The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.
    by Ana Raquel Minian, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on February 15, 2019
Book
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States
Ana Raquel Minian
2024
Book
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
Ana Raquel Minian
2018

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A drawing of two parents and a child running at a border, their silhouettes being sliced by a chainlink fence.

The Crime of Human Movement

Two recent books about our immigration system reveal its long history of exploiting vulnerable individuals for financial gain.
by Coco Fusco via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2024
Book cover of "In the Shadow of Liberty," featuring city scenes and barbed wire.

Intended to Be Cruel

On Ana Raquel Minian’s “In the Shadow of Liberty.”
by Sara Campos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 2, 2024
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