Helena’s Reviews > Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien” > Status Update

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