“Stop Criminalizing Us”: When Immigration Policies Keep Families Apart Personal Politics

"My parents' version of 'the talk' was not about how babies are born–it was about what to do if one or both of them got deported," says Lizbeth Hernandez Rios. Lizbeth is a freshman at Stanford majoring in International Relations and double minoring in Human Rights and Art Studio. She is interested in the development of Latin American countries, and chose to focus her Personal Politics submission on the effect the current anti-immigrant laws had on her and her family–and so many others in their same position.


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