Analysis Of Deported By Golash-Boza

In her, Deported, Golash-Boza explains how globalization and the systemic institutionalization of the deportation of Latino and Caribbean men of color are being used by developed nations to undermine, and control the flow of labor, to and from, developing nations through a neoliberal cycle, having dramatic and far reaching consequences. To show and understand these impacts, Golash-Boza traveled to Latin America, met with deportees, community members, current migrant workers, and families of undocumented workers that left for America. She also engaged in many personal case studies (ethnography) and surveys, and used these personal accounts to draw a narrative about the migrant worker experience. She wants to understand what are the motivations

Because of the 1996 Illegal Immigration and Deportation Act, detained migrant workers lose their due process rights because they are not United States citizens. Golash-Boza uses the War on Drugs, started by Nixon in the 70’s and proliferated by Reagan in the 80’s, to explain how minorities are targeted by the legal system. She builds upon pervious research highlighting this discrepancy, showing that these laws enable mass deportation. The policy changes gave more resources to government agencies, making it possible for them to police, monitor, and deport undocumented workers. Golash-Boza also, points out the vast amount of resources that became available following 9/11, with the transfer of immigration policy from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security, giving Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) greater mobility and range in how they conduct deportations (Deported, 146). To facilitate mass deportation, mass incarceration must also be achieved to house tens of thousands of deportees until they are processed. Actions taken by the government decades ago has established a system that encourages people to migrate to the United States, work and produce here, and then deports them back to their native land, where they are outcasts, proliferating a system of racialized and gendered

Giving due process rights to migrant workers is the first step in protecting their freedoms. Because current laws disaffirm their due process rights, they are unable to properly defend themselves in a court of law, leaving them subject to the governments will. But, equally important, ending the perpetuated cycle of crime that exists within inner-city American will help minority groups escape the grasps that the law has on them. By decreasing the discrepancies in sentencing in relation to drug laws, the legal process becomes equitable. Rather than treating drug issues as crimes, they should be considered a health-related issue. In the case of Ernesto, who came to the United States from the Dominican Republic when he was 14, became addicted to heroin in his 20’s after finishing college (Deported, 116). His addiction soon lead to various arrests, and his arrest made him eligible for deportation. Rather than treat Ernesto’s drug problem, he was deported back to the Dominican Republic, a place he barely knows, where his drug issue grew. Many factors lead to Ernesto’s deportation: his race, his ethnicity, his age, and why he was arrested, but for each of these factors, because Ernesto is a Latino male, he faced a harsher punishment than if he weren’t. Ernesto’s experience highlights every issue with the current system. Even if a person is on the “right” path towards success, they can be quickly