Cristal

“Dehumanization is the first step in justifying voting against the rights of other people.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Costly detention point not necessary if processing is streamlined,” and later added”
― Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants

“Six years later, the welfare reform bill reminded Muñoz of what had first pushed her into organizing. Millions of legal immigrants spent years of their lives paying taxes and starting families, only to see the political debate suddenly shift.”
― Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

“TPS holders would become permanently stuck with a status that was meant to be provisional. Republican and Democratic administrations found it easier to renew their TPS status every two years than to create an actual route to citizenship for those who had built lives in the US over decades.”
― Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis