Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.
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Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672)
Further Reading:
Greg Grandin *The End of the Myth *)(2020)
Jonathan Blitzer *Everyone Who is Gone is Here *)(2024)
David Bacon The Right to Stay Home)* *(2014)
Dara Lind, "The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem)." *Vox, *April 2016.
Heather Timmons. "No one really knows what ICE is supposed to do. Politicians Love that.)" *Quartz, *July 2018.
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