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Zusatztext Praise for Migrating to Prison : “Required reading for anyone fighting for a new immigration policy vision that welcomes immigrants. We need to understand the sadistic! multibillion-dollar industry of immigrant detention so that we can rip it down and make sure it never comes back.” — Cristina Jiménez! co-founder and executive director of United We Dream “Essential for anyone trying to understand how the United States came to have the world’s largest detention infrastructure. García Hernández does a masterful job of laying out the turning points of immigration imprisonment from Ellis Island to family separation and the case for abolishing the practice altogether.” — Silky Shah! executive director of Detention Watch Network “García Hernández provides an insightful examination of the eerie parallels between immigration imprisonment and mass incarceration. He makes a compelling argument that criminalizing immigration enforcement is not only a seriously flawed practical strategy! but an affront to human rights as well.” — Marc Mauer! executive director of The Sentencing Project and author of Race to Incarcerate “A ‘must-read’ for any American interested in the tragic humanitarian impacts of the mass detention of immigrants as a central tool in contemporary immigration enforcement. Hernández writes cogently! intelligently! and passionately about the increasingly expansive use of detention to regulate immigration. The book could not be more timely.” — Kevin R. Johnson! dean! University of California! Davis! School of Law “At a time when child migrant camps and family separations have drawn the attention of Americans! Migrating to Prison provides a vital road map to understand how the immigrant detention industry has evolved over the years. A critical and accessible primer for anyone interested in understanding the system—and abolishing it.” — Deepa Iyer! author of We Too Sing America “ Migrating to Prison rips the veils off of the immigration detention system. García Hernández brings a sharp legal eye to showing how our immigration system has become so twisted that we take for granted the outrageous. If you want a crystal clear explanation of why we need to abolish immigration detention! this is the book for you.” —Aviva Chomsky! author of Undocumented Informationen zum Autor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law and an immigration lawyer. He has appeared in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , NPR, The Guardian , and many other venues. The author of Crimmigration Law as well as Migrating to Prison and Welcome the Wretched (both published by The New Press), he lives in Denver, Colorado. Klappentext "An in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system"-- Zusammenfassung NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author “Argues compellingly that immigrant advocates shouldn’t content themselves with debates about how many thousands of immigrants to lock up, or other minor tweaks.” —Gus Bova, Texas Observer For most of America’s history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigratio...
