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A conversation with Alina Das & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

On Monday, May 4, I'll join two outstanding scholars and advocates, Alina Das and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, to talk about immigration policing in the United States. Join us! Professors Das and Wadhia both recently published books about various aspects of immigration law and policy. In No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants, Das describes the demonizing bent of U.S. immigration law and law enforcement. In Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump, Wadhia focuses on the important role of discretion in carrying out U.S. immigration law. Both represent the most [...]

Posted by César on April 30, 2020 on 10:21 am Leave a Comment
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Ongoing Litigation over Migrants’ Release Amid COVID-19

By Kim Langona On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two days later, President Trump declared a national emergency over the COVID-19 outbreak. To date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 53,922 deaths and more than 957,000 cases in the United States alone. Immigration officials are already empowered to let people shelter in private residences as public health officials advise. According to section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Homeland Security has the power [...]

Posted by César on April 3, 2020 on 11:40 am 1 Comment
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Close Immigration Prisons Now

Yesterday, I published an op-ed in The New York Times arguing for the urgent need to shut down immigration prisons in the United States. I wrote this with my brother Carlos Moctezuma García, a partner at García & García Attorneys at Law, PLLC. You can read the opinion piece, Close Immigration Prisons Now, on the Times' website. [...]

Posted by César on March 20, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
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TEDx Talk: Immigration prison isn’t the answer

Liberty is too precious for anyone to lose it because politicians want votes and private corporations want money. That's what I told the 5,000 people who heard my TEDx talk in Denver last November. Now you can watch too. My talk builds on Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants. Since the book's release in December, I've been talking to audiences around the United States about the United States' use of immigration prisons--why we use them and why we shouldn't. Check out where I'll be visiting in the coming weeks. And if you haven't already, I hope you'll pick [...]

Posted by César on February 11, 2020 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
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“Migrating to Prison” – Denver Law Launch Today

In the weeks since my book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, was published, it has received widespread exposure—from opinion pieces in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times to an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and NPR’s Here & Now. To mark the book’s release, students, colleagues, and friends from the University of Denver College of Law are joining me today for a reading and signing. Watch the conversation live on crimmigration.com starting at 12:00 p.m. MST. [...]

Posted by César on January 28, 2020 on 11:15 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: imprisonment, Migrating to Prison

The Great Writ’s Elusive Promise

By Mary Holper In two recent cases, Reid v. Donelan and Brito v. Barr, a federal court in Massachusetts limited ICE’s power to detain people. But by requiring detained immigrants to file habeas corpus petitions to get a bond hearing in immigration court, Chief Judge Saris of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts undercut the strength of her own clear-sighted analysis. Reid and Brito are both class actions challenging immigration detention. For Reid class members, they must file a habeas corpus petition arguing that their detention under a 1996 mandatory detention statute, [...]

Posted by César on January 21, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: bond, burden, guest blogger, habeas, imprisonment, mandatory detention, U.S. District Courts

On Morning Joe

My book, Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, has been out for about a month and the message that the United States hasn't always locked up so many migrants is receiving exciting attention. I was recently on "Morning Joe," MSNBC's morning news show, to talk about the bipartisan tradition of supporting immigration prisons. If you missed it, watch my conversation with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and their colleagues now. The book has also received a lot of insightful coverage from other journalists. At the Texas Observer, Gus Bova says the book "makes [...]

Posted by César on January 6, 2020 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: imprisonment, Migrating to Prison

Op-ed in New York Times & book excerpt

On the week that Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants is officially released, get a preview of the major arguments I raise in an op-ed published in The New York Times. The piece appears online today and in the print edition on December 3. If you're interested in more, you can read an excerpt from the book in Borderless Magazine. Let's not stop there. I would love to talk about the birth, growth, and potential end of immigration prisons in person. Later this week, I'll be speaking about the book in Denver, then I head to Seattle next week. More stops are on [...]

Posted by César on December 2, 2019 on 5:47 pm Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Migrating to Prison, Uncategorized

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