Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

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. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding.



In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández takes a hard look at the immigrat...