Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez is among those who have begun to connect the dots between mass incarceration and mass deportation. In her brilliant essay “Amnesty or Abolition: Felons, Illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement,” she chronicles how these systems have emerged as dual, interlocking forms of social control that relegate “aliens” and “felons” to a racialized caste of outsiders. The system of mass incarceration created a legal framework by which the rights and benefits of citizenship are routinely stripped away from millions of U.S. citizens labeled “criminals” and
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