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mayonessa's review against another edition
4.0
A great look into the Obama-era immigration laws and the devastating effect they had on migrants' and immigrants' lives in the 2010s.
My only criticism is that the author will sometimes use Spanglish to help the reader understand the meaning of Spanish vocab and colloquialisms and it'll come off as awkward and a little condescending. I can't explain it, but the intermittent use of Spanish in the non-quoted text stuck inbetween English comes off as awkward and I much rather preferred for her to just give the reader the translation and then move on (this will happen with words that aren't always proper nouns). It's easy for me to say as someone who understands Spanish so there was no need for the translations, but I think the implementation of Spanish in certain areas of the book made it seem more like a textbook for Spanish learners than just using the appropriate wordage to get her point across.
However I have two words to sum up my feelings about this book—
FUCK ICE.
My only criticism is that the author will sometimes use Spanglish to help the reader understand the meaning of Spanish vocab and colloquialisms and it'll come off as awkward and a little condescending. I can't explain it, but the intermittent use of Spanish in the non-quoted text stuck inbetween English comes off as awkward and I much rather preferred for her to just give the reader the translation and then move on (this will happen with words that aren't always proper nouns). It's easy for me to say as someone who understands Spanish so there was no need for the translations, but I think the implementation of Spanish in certain areas of the book made it seem more like a textbook for Spanish learners than just using the appropriate wordage to get her point across.
However I have two words to sum up my feelings about this book—
FUCK ICE.
vegebrarian's review
4.0
Stories of detainees on the US/Mexico border. I feel both horrified and embarrassed (though never surprised) by the lack of humanity and levels of cruelty that ICE and for profit prisons use against immigrants. Regan tells the stories of families desperate to stay together and the high price that innocent children pay when your birthplace determines being treated like a human or like garbage. This is both a disturbing book and a book that should be read widely. It is something that racist POS should be reading, because most likely their families, back a few generations may have experience the same trauma. How short our memories are, and how hard our hearts are. Regan's magnifying glass forces us to look at what our government is doing and work to change it for the better.
bookwormmichelle's review
5.0
This is an important book, one I'm glad I read, although it had me alternately crying and so furious I wanted to hit something. This well-researched, well-written, compelling book shows on a very personal level the capriciousness, unfairness, inhumanity and cruelty of our current immigration system. The stories of these individuals, irreparably harmed by our system, and in our names, and with our tax dollars, are unforgettable. Made me want to chain myself to a bus. Or something. America, we can do better than this. We are all diminished by the maltreatment of those who want only to be a part of us. Even if we are too stupid to realize what immigrants add to our country and let more in, we need to treat these human beings . . . like they are human beings. Prisoners of war get better treatment.
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