Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire

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Using volatile Arizona as a case study, journalist Margaret Regan portrays the harshness of the detention centers hidden away in the countryside and travels to Mexico and Guatemala to report on the fate of deportees stranded far from their families in the United States. Drawing on firsthand accounts and eyewitness reports, Detained and Deported is a humanizing and rare glimpse into the lives of those caught up in the US immigration enforcement cycle.

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Praise for Detained and Deported

Intimate and heartbreakingFor those who have been searching for an authentic look at people caught between borders, this is it.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Heartbreaking, thorough, and insightful. Regans work gives readers an important view into the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants.
Library Journal

A timely look at the inhumane effects of immigration policies in the United States Regan's books bring into focus the fates of undocumented people fighting against the odds to make it into America and then, if they get here, struggling, and often failing, to build a life.
Kirkus Reviews

Margaret Regan has done it again. With beautiful, absorbing prose, and meticulous research, she captures the intense and intimate stories of those detained, deported, and forcibly separated from their families by the most massive detention and deportation system weve ever had in the United States. A powerful and deeply moving book.
Todd Miller, author of Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Homeland Security

This important work should be read together with Regans previous expos, The Death of Josseline (2010).
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Praise for The Death of Josseline

This book should be required reading for everyonefrom President Obama and the director of Homeland Security to the border patrol agents, the vigilantes, and migrant rights activists. If people on both sides of the immigration issue picked up this book instead of arms, we would come to a peaceful resolution; it gave me inspiration.
Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

Most border experts and immigration writers are mere tourists.This writer is not one of them.In Margaret Regans The Death of Josseline, you have a writer who lives the story, reports from the heart of the killzone, and works the territory on aregular basis. The many admirers of Enriques Journey will find much to admire, and fear, in this powerful report.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devils Highway

There may be no better way to understand the muddle that is US immigration policy than by reading these portraits of people who cross the border in hopes of a better life.
Ted Robbins,National Public Radio

Author Bio

Margaret Regan is the author of the award-winning book The Death of Josseline- Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands(Beacon Press), a 2010 Southwest Book of the Year and a Common Read for the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. An editor and writer at the Tucson Weekly, Regan has won many regional and national prizes for her immigration reporting, including the 2013 Al Filipov Peace and Justice Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.