César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Hernández is the author of Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” and the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Ohio State University

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All American Families Have Stories of Illegal Immigration

Migrants of today have much in common with migrants of the past. It’s important to remember that.

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Ellis Island Welcomed Thousands to America—But It Was Also a Detention Center

As many as 12 million people are thought to have first stepped foot in the United States through Ellis Island’s immigration offices, which opened on Jan. 1, 1892

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
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