Detention by Design, 6 part podcast series traces Florida's ties to modern immigration crisis

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trailer for series

 

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Episode 1

 

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Amerikkka Inc.! Bout to check it out

 

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Episode 2

 

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'Give them right, give them freedom'​

By 1976, an estimated 1,500 Haitians had arrived in South Florida by boat. Even amid widespread repression and persecution at home, successive U.S. governments categorically denied Haitians were asking for political asylum. In the third episode of Detention By Design, we look at how the Cold War shaped immigration detention in the late 1970s - with those fleeing Communist regimes being granted asylum, while Haitians were being thrown in jail

 

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Mariel Boatlift: The tide turns​

Episode 4 of Detention By Design looks at the 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift and the turning point it marked for the U.S. immigration detention system. As 125,000 Cuban refugees landed in Florida, most spent only a day or two in a processing center - while Haitians were held for much longer. The lessons learned by the federal government during this often chaotic time would shape the years that followed.

 

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The new immigration detention system is born​

Episode 5 The amount of Haitians held in immigration detention skyrockets and the federal government starts holding them in federal prisons. Facing accusations of racism inside and outside the courts, the Reagan Administration decided to make a drastic policy shift: instead of treating Haitians like everyone else, it would now treat everyone else like Haitians

 

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‘It’s all about the money’: Immigration detention in 2022

FINAL: Episode 6 As the immigration detention system flourished since the 1980s, it led to the creation of the private prison industry. The last episode of WLRN's podcast Detention By Design looks at the inextricable links between the two, and how, in turn, the picture has gone full circle in 2022, leaving us in a place very similar to the early days of Haitian and Cuban arrivals in Florida

 

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Gotta check this out. I only recently learned about how they were rounding up Haitian immigrants and sending them to detention centers out on Krome.

 

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Finished listening to this series.

Didn’t know about the protest & break out at the Krome Detention Center at all. Barely can find anything about it on Google.





Seems like detaining/imprisoning Haitians was the start or propellor of the private prison industry. Kinda reminds of how it seems like Haitians were the original “insurgents” of U.S. media military invasion propaganda.


Glad they pointed out the Monroe Doctrine angle. Personally I see the logic in establishing immigration policies and controlling flow. But the US is directly responsible for causing economic & political strife in the islands, South & Central America.

Plunder their resources, wealthy, and people…and when those same people want to partake in the wealth and (American) dreams stolen from them….they get denied and labeled as ‘illegals’? Foh

US is the GOAT at spinning the truth and narratives.