Book cover of Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System

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Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and…

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1 author picked Forever Prisoners as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The kind of imprisonment happening in the United States today is not new. Through careful historical research, Young shows the numerous previous cases of indefinite incarceration that have so quickly exited the generic American psyche. In doing so, he draws attention to who is still entrapped as a forever prisoner, and appeals to our humanity to consider why and how this is so.

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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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