Author and radio host Deepa Fernandes joins us to talk about her new book, “Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration.” Fernandes documents the hidden human struggles behind the immigration debate and exposes how big business has been a driving force in setting immigration policy. [includes rush transcript]

President Bush renewed his call for immigration reform during his State of the Union address Tuesday. The president’s proposal echoed many of his earlier initiatives for an immigration overhaul.

• President Bush.

The president’s State of the Union address came on the same day federal officials announced the results of one of the biggest immigration sweeps in U.S. history. Authorities said over seven hundred sixty undocumented immigrants were arrested in a week-long series of raids in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. More than four hundred and fifty of them have already been deported.

Well a new book documents the hidden human struggles behind the immigration debate and exposes how big business has been a driving force in setting immigration policy. It’s called “Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration.” Deepa Fernandes is the author and she joins us today in our firehouse studio.

• Deepa Fernandes, author of the new book “Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration.” She hosts Wakeup Call on Pacifica Radio’s WBAI in New York and is the founder of the youth radio training program Radio Rootz. She is the former host of Pacifica’s Free Speech Radio News.