{"product_id":"9781620978313","title":"Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eTexas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrating to Prison\u003c\/i\u003e takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins, how it currently operates, and why. A leading voice for immigration reform, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with an epilogue that brings it into the Biden administration, \u003ci\u003eMigrating to Prison\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of who belongs in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371018719293,"sku":"9781620978313","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781620978313_p0.jpg?v=1771579419","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781620978313","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}