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“These entities make money by starving, sickening, and exploiting detained migrants. The less they provide, the bigger their profits.”

Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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September 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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NEW FREE HELL!

@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and Deirdre Conlon discuss their book, "Immigration Detention, Inc." (@plutopress.bsky.social)

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NEW EP! For-Profit Misery | This Is Hell!
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September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“We have studied immigration detention for over a decade and can say with grim certainty that it's just a matter of time until someone dies at Alligator Alcatraz.”

Immigration Detention Inc. authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social for @newsweek.com
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People Will Die at Alligator Alcatraz | Opinion
If we don't demand accountability and eliminate profit incentives, more companies and communities will become economically dependent on locking up, starving, and making human beings sick.
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July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and me @drdconlon.bsky.social have a new op-ed in Newsweek. Thanks to Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org for all the support with this:
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People Will Die at Alligator Alcatraz | Opinion
If we don't demand accountability and eliminate profit incentives, more companies and communities will become economically dependent on locking up, starving, and making human beings sick.
www.newsweek.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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📚TOMORROW📚

Author @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social visits Bluestockings for a discussion of Immigration Detention Inc.

🗓️Tues, July 15
⏰5:30 pm
📍Bluestockings
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7/15 - Book Reading and Panel Discussion on "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" by Bluestockings
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July 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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📚BOOK EVENT📚

Author @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social visits Bluestockings for a discussion of Immigration Detention Inc.

🗓️Tues, July 15
⏰5:30 pm
📍Bluestockings
withfriends.co/event/236709...
7/15 - Book Reading and Panel Discussion on "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" by Bluestockings
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July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Tues., @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and Deirdre Conlon on "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" (@plutopress.bsky.social).

Weds., Micah Herskind on "Why Cop City? Why Here? Why Now?" in "No Cop City, No Cop World" (@haymarketbooks.org).

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June 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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📚BOOK EVENT📚

Author @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social visits Bluestockings for a discussion of Immigration Detention Inc.

🗓️Tues, July 15
⏰5:30 pm
📍Bluestockings
withfriends.co/event/236709...
7/15 - Book Reading and Panel Discussion on "Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants" by Bluestockings
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June 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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📕Find Pluto and other radicals at @socialismconference.org‬ in Chicago!

Authors @kylietcheung.bsky.social‬, @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social‬ will speak about their books. Come join us!

🗓️July 3-6
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June 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Immigration Detention Inc Book Launch: July 1, 7pm at Book Culture @drdconlon.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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“Shines an urgent spotlight on an inhumane system.”

Immigration Detention Inc. by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social‬ and @drdconlon.bsky.social reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants by Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon
Geographers Hiemstra (Detain and Deport) and Conlon provide a revealing overview of the American business of for-profit migrant ...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It was an honor to engage in this important conversation, touching on my chapter “Controlling immigrant reproduction and the borders of national identity”.
April 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Immigrants forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers
April 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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While ICE agents can note in their database if someone they’ve investigated turns out to be a citizen, they are not required to do so.

As a result, records are often wrong and left uncorrected even after agents have been told of a mistake.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
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March 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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📘FREE, VIRTUAL EVENT — TOMORROW! 📘

Join us for a YouTube livestream with five Pluto authors!

@kylietcheung.bsky.social
@stewarthome.bsky.social
@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social
and Susan Ferguson

🗓️Thur, Mar 20
⏰6 pm GMT

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March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/b...

Excellent piece about how the Trump administration’s deportation plans and campaign of fear have so many short and long-term consequences…
Undocumented Workers, Fearing Deportation, Are Staying Home
Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM