Migrating to Prison

What? Building a critical consciousness surrounding immigration and incarceration is important to breaking down false and accusing sign systems are society has created. Garcia-Hernandez provides historical context to convey why our country treats immigrants and LatinX people the way we do…

Critical Reflection #6 — Immigrants and Imprisonment

Immigration has always been an issue, especially in the past few years with Donald Trump’s strict immigration/deportation laws. “In 1973, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detained only 2,370 people every day… But by the…

Recognizing A Stranger in Ourselves

One of the biggest and painful themes throughout César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández’s book Migrating to Prison is the use of migrants by the U.S. for cheap labor. He writes, “With migration comes the possibility of exploitation. Poor people of color are dispossessed…

The Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policies

What?

Throughout the reading Migrating to Prison the author, Garcia Hernandez, advocates for the idea that immigration law is broken and how the system intends to “punish, stigmatize, and marginalize” individuals through the…

Dehumanization

One story that caught my attention was in the introduction. It was the story of Jerry. Garcia-Hernandex describes the way they both grew up similarly: “we were both raised in the Texas borderlands…We were born into a community that is almost entirely Mexican. We are both Spanish speakers whose…