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"Nofil’s book, dense with archival evidence, documents how the federal government has long warehoused immigrants in local jails, and, in so doing, evaded oversight and responsibility for horrific, even deadly, conditions."鈥擭ew Yorker

"A revealing, potent history of mass incarceration and deportation, told through the stories of migrants in American jails."鈥擬artin Chilton, The Independent

"Compelling. . . . An insightful and alarming history of the nation’s failures in detaining and deporting migrants."鈥�Kirkus

"A frightful story that should be better known."鈥�Choice

"Essential reading....this is history at its best: it aids our understanding. Brianna Nofil’s book offers original scholarship informed by deep and wide-ranging research. It is an engrossing read and essential to understanding our world today."鈥擬arilyn Lake, Australian Book Review

“A brilliant, often surprising book that forever changed the way I think about immigration detention and the rise of mass incarceration. Brianna Nofil takes us inside local jails, federal lockups, for-profit prisons, government agencies, courtrooms, and the halls of Congress to reveal how the United States built the largest migrant detention system in the world during the past century. Thanks to her painstaking research in archives scattered across the country, Nofil comes with receipts.”—Adam Goodman, author of The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants

“Brianna Nofil has crafted an important work to which considerable scholarly and general attention should be paid. This is a clear-eyed, well-researched, granular, and impressively wide-ranging work of historical excavation and politico-legal critique. Its exploration of the deep roots and problematic recent expansion of government—and increasingly private, profit-based—mass detention of noncitizens in the United States should inform all future discussions of these and many related issues.”—Daniel Kanstroom, author of Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora

"A crucial intervention in the history of immigrant detention and resistance. Nofil reveals how local jails came to form a sprawling, flexible, nationwide web of incarceration that continues to ensnare immigrants to this day.”—Beth Lew-Williams, 91桃色 University

“Brianna Nofil’s The Migrant’s Jail is a long-overdue look at this nation’s long history of immigration detention—one that not only shines needed new light on the insidious logics of this project, but also makes clear that the criminalization and incarceration of immigrants has always depended as much on the buy-in of local governments and the expansion of county jails as on any political machinations at the federal level. It is a truly indispensable read.”—Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy