Reporter Daniel Denvir examines how Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama built the mechanisms for mass deportation - from expanding local police presence into the lives of immigrants, to legitimizing nativist narratives for political gain - and explains why cities will be the battleground for resisting Trump's promised immigrant crackdown.
Dan wrote the recent article How Centrists Failed Immigrants for Jacobin.
Daniel Denvir is a freelance reporter covering criminal justice, immigration, the drug war and politics. He just launched a new podcast, The Dig, which is great.