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Raiding the Heartland

Name: Raiding the Heartland
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421453705
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421453705

An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

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By William D. Lopez
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 23, 2025
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 264

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Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids—and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.

Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These worksite raids fracture families, devastate local economies, and spread fear and trauma that lingers for years. Yet in the wake of these devastating raids, immigrant communities exhibit resistance, resilience, creativity, and an extraordinary determination to rebuild.

In this powerful follow-up to his best-seller Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid, William D. Lopez brings us into the heart of communities targeted by large-scale ICE enforcement under the Trump administration. These are places where immigrant workers, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades, are suddenly torn from their families and livelihoods. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book highlights the voices of those who have endured these raids: the teachers left to comfort traumatized children, the faith leaders who opened their doors to families in crisis, the organizers who mobilized relief efforts overnight, and the workers and their families who fought for their right to remain.

As raids continue to increase across the country, this book is an urgent and deeply human portrait of what these raids leave behind—and the fierce, often unexpected ways communities come together across class, race, and immigration status in their aftermath.

William D. Lopez is a clinical associate professor at the School of Public Health and a faculty associate in the Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid.

Prologue Introduction: Documenting Cruelty in the U.S. Heartland 1. Raid a Factory, Tell a Story 2. Choreographed Chaos 3. Para Uno Que Tiene Familia, es Mas Dificil 4. The Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes 5. Where Do You Stop Being a Teacher? 6. A New Overground Railroad 7. It Was the Bed Bugs That Broke Her Epilogue: A Beautiful Morning in the Heartland of the U.S. Acknowledgments

Prescient....Full of heartrending interviews with those left behind as they reckon with broken families and loss, Lopezs account is also a valuable primer on ICEs powers.Timely and harrowing.— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A work of narrative nonfiction that grabs readers from the opening pages and doesnt let go. Raiding the Heartland is a well-told, sometimes personal, often infuriating tale enriched with stories from across the U.S. that effectively shows deportations arent just an immigrant story but an essentially American one.

—Gary Rivlin, author of AI Valley and Katrina: After the Flood

Lopez expertly utilizes interviews and ethnographic descriptions to show us how immigration raids tear apart the social fabric of communities in ways that undermine public health, safety, and well-being, and to illuminate the systems of mutual support that mobilize to try to repair the damage.

—Alex S. Vitale, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Raiding the Heartland is an absolute must-read in this terrifying political moment. Lopez deftly chronicles what it means to render entire communities fearful as they attend church, take children to school, and make their livings. But his rescuing of how these same communities navigate and resist this fear will inspire in ways beautiful and necessary.

—Heather Anne Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy

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