William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration
raids place on Latino communities-and the families and friends who
must recover from their aftermath. 2020 International Latino Book
Awards Winner First Place, Mariposa Award for Best First Book -
Nonfiction Honorable Mention, Best Political / Current Affairs Book
On a Thursday in November 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.
Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law
enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who
actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with
twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013,
as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez
combines rigorous research with moving storytelling. Putting faces
and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated
urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human
experience of mixed-status communities in the small towns that dot
the interior of the United States.
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