César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a writer and law professor at the University of Denver who focuses on migration policing. In December 2019, he published a book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, about the United States’ reliance on prisons to enforce immigration law. In 2015, he published his first book, Crimmigration Law. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC, The Nation, La Opinión, and numerous other publications in the United States and around the world. Hernández publishes crimmigration.com, a blog about the convergence of criminal and immigration law. He has been a fulbright scholar in Slovenia and is currently a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. Gabriella Farrell ’21. Clarke Forum student project manager, is conducting the interview.