Patrisia Macías-Rojas is an associate professor in sociology and Latin American and Latin studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America (NYU Press, 2016).
Patrisia Macías-Rojas
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
The Double Edge of Border Security: 30 Years of Expanding Executive Power through Immigration Law
In the 1990s, lawmakers—including Schumer, Biden, and Clinton—invoked civil rights ideals, even while they narrowed legal protections from detention, deportation, and policing.
