Join Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University and Cambridge Forum:
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
7:00 pm
First Parish Church
3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
A free reception will be hosted by the University of Denver at 5:30 pm. All are welcome.
For much 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. As a result, roughly 400,000 people a year now spend some time locked up pending civil or criminal immigration proceedings. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández‘s new book takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins and how it currently operates. It tackles 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.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a professor of law at the University of Denver and an immigration lawyer. He runs the blog Crimmigration.com and regularly speaks on immigration law and policy issues. He has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and many other venues.
Praise for Migrating to Prison
“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
