{"id":2329,"date":"2020-10-14T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cornell-law-review.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2020-10-14T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:14:55","slug":"book-review-yearning-to-breathe-free-migration-related-confinement-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/2020\/10\/14\/book-review-yearning-to-breathe-free-migration-related-confinement-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review\u2014Yearning to Breathe Free: Migration Related Confinement in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Book: MIGRATING TO PRISON: AMERICA\u2019S OBSESSION WITH LOCKING UP IMMIGRANTS. C\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez. 2019. 190 pages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Migrating to Prison <\/em>assumes a primary position among the growing body of legal scholarship that focuses on the role of incarceration in immigration regulation. This Review explores two key contributions of the book, while situating the work among other scholarship on immigration-related confinement, including my own.<sup class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_2329_1('footnote_plugin_reference_2329_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_2329_1('footnote_plugin_reference_2329_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_2329_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1<\/sup><\/a><cite class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><span class=\"footnote-inner\">1. See generally Danielle C. Jefferis, Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention, 95 IND. L. J. 144, 160 (2020) (discussing \u201cfor-profit, civil immigration detention\u201d and&nbsp;&#x2026; <span class=\"footnote_tooltip_continue\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_2329_1('footnote_plugin_reference_2329_1_1');\">Continue reading<\/span><\/span><\/cite><\/sup><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2329_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2329_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script> Part I traces the rise, fall, and subsequent rise (again) of immigration imprisonment in the United States. Part II describes the scope of immigration detention pursuant to both civil and criminal legal authority and the poor, largely unchecked, conditions inside the facilities incarcerating people for migration-related reasons. Part III examines the book\u2019s normative proposal: that abolishing immigration imprisonment is possible and should be pursued. This Review concludes by offering that <em>Migrating to Prisons <\/em>is an integral piece of a multi-faceted, growing body of literature that challenges the legal\u2014and moral\u2014foundations of migration-related confinement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more of this Book Review, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-cornell-law-review.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jefferis-online-essay-final.10.14.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yearning to Breathe Free: Migration Related Confinement in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_2329_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_2329_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_2329_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_2329_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_2329_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_2329_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_2329_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><em>See generally <\/em>Danielle C. Jefferis, <em>Constitutionally Unaccountable: Privatized Immigration Detention<\/em>, 95 IND. L. J. 144, 160 (2020) (discussing \u201cfor-profit, civil immigration detention\u201d and examining \u201cthe absence of a constitutional tort remedy\u201d); <em>see also <\/em>Danielle C. Jefferis, <em>Delegating Care, Evading Review: The Federal Tort Claims Act and Access to Medical Care in Federal Private Prisons<\/em>, 80 L.A. L. REV. 37 (2019) [hereinafter Jefferis, <em>Delegating Care, Evading Review<\/em>] (highlighting how the \u201cthe Federal Tort claims Act\u2019s independent-contractor exception\u201d is used to evade the \u201cnondelegable duty of care owed to prisoners in its custody\u201d); <em>see also <\/em>Ren\u00e9 Lima-Mar\u00edn &amp; Danielle C. Jefferis, <em>It\u2019s Just Like Prison: Is a Civil (Nonpunitive) System of Immigration Detention Theoretically Possible?<\/em>, 96 DENV. L. 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