The Brooklyn Historical Society hosts:
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.
Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30 PM
BHS Pierrepont 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Admission