Welcome the Wretched

Praise for Welcome the Wretched:""[Welcome the Wretched] offers timely insights into the vexing problem of citizenship in America."" —Kirkus Reviews ""For those seeking to understand the traps and hidden history of immigration law."" —Library Journal ""A brilliant, deeply personal, and highly readable indictment of the violent, racist history of immigration law’s entanglement with criminal law. García Hernández offers readers a powerful blueprint for remaking the entire U.S. immigration system in a way that’s grounded in the fundamental dignity and worth of all immigrants—even ones the law has chosen to mark as “criminals.”"" —Aaron Bobrow-Strain, author of The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story ""Combining inspiring stories with legal insights, Welcome the Wretched provides a powerful rebuttal to the bipartisan consensus that immigration is a ‘problem’ that needs to be solved."" —Reece Jones, author of White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall ""A thought-provoking and much-needed perspective in today’s polarized immigration debate, Welcome the Wretched is essential reading for anyone interested in a deep dive into the injustices at the intersection of the immigration and criminal legal systems. Its invitation to ‘imagine a radical reconstruction of immigration law’ is an urgent call we must all heed if we are to live up to this country’s promise as a beacon of hope for the marginalized and oppressed around the world."" —Efrén C. Olivares, deputy legal director for immigrant justice at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the author of My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines ""César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is today's most important thinker about the intersection of immigration and crime. In this personal, historically rooted, and deeply moving book, García Hernández dismantles many longstanding misconceptions—shared by folks on the right and the left—and makes an urgent plea for rethinking our approach to policing immigration. This book is so damn important."" —John Washington, investigative reporter and author of The Dispossessed ""Welcome the Wretched is a brave book that will enlighten and enrage you. Crimmigration is personal for César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández. His lucid writing and gut-wrenching stories expose an immigration system that destroys lives and tears families apart. Read it and agitate."" —Paul Butler, author of Chokehold and Let’s Get Free