César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández at Brooklyn Historical Society
February 13, 2020
- 6:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street,
Brooklyn NY

Is immigrant detention a symptom of a broken system, or is it a product of a system working exactly as designed?

In his new book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, scholar and legal expert César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández lays out a passionate and unvarnished view of the US immigrant detention industry, the politics that created it, and the circumstances that keep it thriving. Hear García Hernández’s analysis first-hand as he contextualizes the crisis at our southern border. Moderated by Lee Wang, director of the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund.