Abstract
Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández has spent more than a decade writing about the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. In his most recent book, Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien,” he offers a bold proclamation – that immigration enforcement in the United States should be untethered from the criminal legal system. Grounding his argument are two equally important assertions: (1) tying deportation to perceived criminal activity does not make the United States any safer, and (2) migrants are people, “complicated and contradictory,” but worthy of consideration beyond their greatest missteps.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
9-27-2024
Repository Citation
Boaz, Matthew, "Book Review: Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien"" (2024). Law Faculty Popular Media. 81.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/law_facpub_pop/81
Notes/Citation Information
Matthew Boaz, Book Review: Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”, Faculty of Law Blogs University of Oxford (Sept. 27, 2024), https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-criminologies-blog/blog-post/2024/09/book-review-welcome-wretcheddefense-criminal-alien.