![]() ![]() ![]() Importantly, growth implies a beginning: imprisonment wasn’t always used to enforce immigration law like it is now. The book revolves around the growth of immigration prisons. Migrating to Prison came out when President Trump occupied the White House, but I wrote it because of what happened under President Obama, practices and policies which became more severe under Trump. As a lawyer representing many people in this situation, I heard complaints about physical abuse and sexual assaults, but outside the walls of immigration prisons few people paid attention. Under President Obama, the United States government detained hundreds of thousands of migrants every year as immigration officials decided if they would be allowed to remain in the country. ![]() What motivated you to write the book and what's the main takeaway point from it? ![]() Your most recent book is entitled Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants. He has published extensively about the criminalization of immigration under U.S. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández joins the Moritz College of Law at OSU as the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties in August 2021. ![]()
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