David Bacon explores the human side of glob­al­iza­tion, expos­ing the many ways it uproots peo­ple dri­ving them to migrate. He also speaks about how immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy makes the labor of those dis­placed peo­ple a crime in the Unit­ed States. Ille­gal Peo­ple explains why cur­rent immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy pro­duces even more dis­place­ment, more migra­tion, more immi­gra­tion raids, and a more divid­ed, polar­ized society.