The End of Asylum

Mae Ngai’s article The End of Asylum was recently published in the New York Review of Books.

“In Los Angeles, ICE agents descend upon day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot. In central California they chase farmworkers through a field, trampling migrants and crops alike. In Georgia they raid a Hyundai factory and detain hundreds of workers. In Chicago they storm an apartment building in the middle of the night, smashing down doors and dragging dozens of terrified residents, including children, out of their homes.”

Read more here.