State Power, Inequality, and Social Control: How Today’s Immigration Crackdowns Reshape Rights, Mobility, and Everyday Security

Why does scrolling through the news feel like drowning?

Immigration raids. Internet shutdowns during protests. Algorithmic policing. Rising health care costs hit some communities harder than others. These aren't random crises—they're connected symptoms of a global system designed to sort human beings into those protected and those disposable.

This article pulls back the curtain on what sociologists call the carceral-surveillance state: the fusion of militarized borders, digital monitoring, welfare restrictions, and racialized law that now governs everyday life from the workplace to the home. It explains why your visa status, credit score, and social media footprint are part of the same machinery—and why the anxiety you feel isn't a personal failing but a predictable outcome of institutions built to manufacture precarity.

Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship from Menjívar, Lyon, Garneau, and others, this piece doesn't just diagnose the problem. It maps pathways for resistance: from sanctuary networks and community defense to digital counter-surveillance and policy transformation.

If you've ever wondered why "the news" feels personally exhausting—or why certain people seem perpetually vulnerable while others glide through untouched—this is the sociological framework you need.

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