48: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández with Steve Scher—Migrating to Prison

In this week's interview, Chief Correspondent Steve Scher talks with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about the problems with our nation's immigration prison system. Hernández outlines the financial incentives for private prisons to keep their cells filled in order to receive money from the government, and identifies similarities between immigration prisons and the mass incarceration of the 1980's Reagan-era war on drugs. Hernández and Scher discuss the stigmas migrants face, as well as the factors perpetuating this prison system and what it would take to dismantle the immigration prison system. Get an insider's look and stay in the know about what's going on in this moment at Town Hall.