

Migrating to Prison
America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
Author: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/03/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Emigration & Immigration
Synopsis
In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and he looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.
Interspersed with powerful stories of people caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry, including children who have spent most of their lives in immigrant detention, Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of the United States: who belongs and on what criteria is that determination made?