<DIV><P>Every year the American Dream inspires hundreds of thousands of people to risk their savings&mdash;and their lives&mdash;to enter the United States in search of a better life. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare&mdash;a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.</P><P>In <I>Targeted</I>, journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque US Homeland Security system: immigrants, non-citizens and undocumented workers. Deepa&mdash;herself an immigrant well-acquainted with US immigration procedures&mdash;takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, and detention.</P><P>Fernandes argues that since 9/11 the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that simultaneously constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for a growing &ldquo;Immigration Industrial Complex.&rdquo; She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that have successfully infiltrated and influenced the writing of the country&rsquo;s immigration legislation.</P><P>Deepa Fernandes is a radio journalist for Pacifica Radio whose award-winning work has aired on the BBC World Service, and National Public Radio. Her writing has appeared in the <I>Village Voice</I>, <I>In These Times</I> and the <I>New York Amsterdam News</I>. <I>Targeted</I>, her first book, is the result of four years of research collecting narratives from immigrants as well as human rights groups and lawyers who are challenging the Bush administrations policies.</P></DIV>