Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid Audiobook (Free)

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 from their shared apartment above a little auto repair center that day experienced failed to return-arrested, one at a time, by ICE real estate agents and local law enforcement. As both women discussed how to proceed following, a SWAT team clad in body armor and holding assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, ‘The troops came inside your home. They knocked down about Separated: Family members and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid doorways. They threw gas. They had guns. We had been two women with small children . The youngsters terrified, the kids screaming.’

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the enduring damage completed by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw Region, Michigan. Discovering the chaos of enforcement through the zoom lens of community wellness, Lopez discusses deportation’s rippling unwanted effects on family members, communities, and people. Concentrating on those left out, Lopez reveals their attempts to handle trauma, avoid homelessness, deal with worsening wellness, and keep their families together because they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that’s militarized, distressing, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.