IS IMMIGRANT DETENTION MIMICKING DRUG POLICIES?
The article focuses on the issues on the U.S. immigration system. The growing prevalence of detention as a policy within the U.S. immigration system is strikingly similar to policies of criminal sanctions and mass incarceration used to fight the “war on drugs” in the 1980s, claims University at Buffalo (N.Y.) Law School professor Teresa A. Miller. As the debate rages and policies of felonization, deportation, and amnesty are considered, Hispanics are at critical crossroads, Miller insists.