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.