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A Land Unknown: America's New Machinery of Expulsion - and the Case for Ending It
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ISBN13: 9798193394006
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man wins his case. An immigration judge finds that the government of his
country would torture him, and forbids his removal there. Four years later he
is put on an aircraft to a country he has never seen, handed to a warden who
has no charge against him, and held in a prison built by somebody else's
country would torture him, and forbids his removal there. Four years later he
is put on an aircraft to a country he has never seen, handed to a warden who
has no charge against him, and held in a prison built by somebody else's
emergency. Nobody broke the law. That is the problem.
A Land Unknown is the first full legal account of what the United States has
built since 2025 - a triangular system of third-country removals, purchased
detention, and confidential agreements in which the decision to expel is
deliberately separated from responsibility for what follows. Drawing on the
governing statutes, the 2025-2026 litigation, and the failed experiments of
Britain, Australia, Canada and Italy, Dr. Zahir Hasan shows that the failures
here are not administrative. They are the design. Rigorous enough for a courtroom and written for anyone who has ever wondered
what a border is actually for, this book ends where the evidence leads: not
with a better procedure, but with a statute that would prohibit the practice
outright. For readers of immigration law, human rights, and American politics.
A Land Unknown is the first full legal account of what the United States has
built since 2025 - a triangular system of third-country removals, purchased
detention, and confidential agreements in which the decision to expel is
deliberately separated from responsibility for what follows. Drawing on the
governing statutes, the 2025-2026 litigation, and the failed experiments of
Britain, Australia, Canada and Italy, Dr. Zahir Hasan shows that the failures
here are not administrative. They are the design. Rigorous enough for a courtroom and written for anyone who has ever wondered
what a border is actually for, this book ends where the evidence leads: not
with a better procedure, but with a statute that would prohibit the practice
outright. For readers of immigration law, human rights, and American politics.
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