![]() ![]() This is a riveting and distressing account of one woman’s immigration nightmare, and a well-researched argument against the status quo in border security. Bobrow-Strain draws from dozens of interviews with the principal actors in the story, including four years of collaboration with Hernandez, providing him an insider’s perspective that elevates the narrative above simple reportage. Aaron Bobrow-Strains book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez brings to life unforgettable women, and through their stories, explores the failure of Prevention Through Deterrence which posits that if the journey is horrific enough people will not come. Interwoven with Aida’s story are those of her father, a former socialist revolutionary Rosie Mendoza, a former undocumented immigrant who became Aida’s social worker and the twin border towns, Douglas and Agua Prieta, Mexico. ![]() Four years later, she was arrested for misdemeanor theft and spent 10 months in the Eloy Immigration Detention Center before getting a green card. After the stabbing, Hernandez developed PTSD, exacerbated by fears she’d be deported and separated from her son again. He also shows us that the heroes of our current immigration wars are less likely to be perfect paragons of virtue than complex, flawed human beings who deserve justice and empathy all the same. in an ambulance after she was stabbed and left for dead by a stranger. With emotional force and narrative suspense, Aaron Bobrow-Strain brings us into the heart of a violently unequal America. married and had a child with an American citizen was deported in 2008 to Mexico at age 20 and, not long after, returned to the U.S. ![]() ![]() In this merger of “journalistic nonfiction and ethnography,” politics professor Bobrow-Strain narrates the story of Aida Hernandez, who grew up an undocumented immigrant in Douglas, Ariz. ![]()
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