Historically immigration law and criminal law have functioned separately. But over the past few decades, we've seen them slowly merge, as the criminalization of immigrants increased. Now, under Trump, that criminalization is worse than ever, and is resulting in policies like family separation. On this episode, we talk to Alida Garcia, an attorney and Vice President of Advocacy at FWD.us, about America's shameful trend of criminalizing immigrants.

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