Aug 25, 2026
Sarah Towle, international educator and author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, joins Deepak Puri, Founder of The Democracy Labs, to discuss her on-the-ground investigation of immigration detention and deportation practices at the US-Mexico border. She traces the historical roots of the current immigration policies and how detention centers operate as for-profit enterprises. Her book chronicles the Trump administration's detention center policies and calls for grassroots resistance.
Deepak and Sarah talk about
- The bipartisan origins of the current detention center system
- How the Trump administration has institutionalized cruelty
- The sanctuary movement and current resistance efforts
- Coalition building to drive corporate accountability and divestment from companies in the business of detention
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