Migrating to Prison

<p><strong>NATIONAL BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>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</strong></p><p><strong>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 <em>Texas Observer</em></strong></p><p>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 immigration laws.</p><p><em>Migrating to Prison</em> takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins how it currently operates and why. A leading voice for immigration reform Céeacute;sar Cuauhtémoc Garcíiacute;a Hernáaacute;ndez explores the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s and 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.</p><p>




</p><p>Now with an epilogue that brings it into the Biden administration <em>Migrating to Prison</em> is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of who belongs in the United States.</p>