William D. Lopez's Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid Author: William D. Lopez Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 24, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return—arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, 'The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children . . . The kids terrified, the kids screaming.' In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.