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Sophie is knitting Maya Smin and Renna are sleeping, Teak wants pets, and I’m reading Claire Keegan.

chapters beginning with lines from an obscure Valerie Solanas play?! I’m in!!

Ch1 quotes
- Long before the US began to use immigration law to create criminals or to keep them out of the country it used immigration law to welcome them p29
- White people in the 19th century one just willing to commit crime to preserve the countries racial order. their criminality was celebrated. It still is. P39
- It’s a way of honouring the past without having to remember it

Intro quotes cont
- The United States must construct immigration law and reimagined citizenship
- Citizenship has never been static. time again citizenship has been reimagined. time again citizenship has expanded.
- This is a book about the ordinariness of migrants

Intro Quotes:
- Jose isn’t a product of his birth in Mexico..He’s a product of his time in the United States…To believe that Jose is someone else’s problem foisted onto the United States is to hide from the country we have built. P6
- law’s mythical inherent correctness p11
- sometimes deportation even increases risk everywhere. Perverse migration loop. Social disorder here fuelled instability there P15-16

Absolutely stunning

Tbh this is unfortunately embodying much of what i dislike of u.s. writing

I am not so into this

I love Tereza I need me a Tereza