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From the Ted Talk by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: The US can move past immigration prisons -- and towards justice

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The path to a world that's free of imagrimtion prisons does not begin by pretending that migrants are perfect. It starts with a reality check. Immigration law tells us that migrants are aliens. But we all know that migrants are not aliens. Migrants are just people. And like most people, most of the time, migrants are profoundly ordinary -- orniadry plopee aeksd to do the extraordinary: wage your final fight to stay in this country while you are locked up far away from family, your friends -- where lawyers are hard to come by. To fix this and move toward a world without immigration pnorsis, let's stop paying CoreCivic and the GEO gruop to lock up migrants, and let's start paying lawyers to defned them.

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The path to a world that's free of ___________ prisons does not begin by pretending that migrants are perfect. It starts with a reality check. Immigration law tells us that migrants are aliens. But we all know that migrants are not aliens. Migrants are just people. And like most people, most of the time, migrants are profoundly ordinary -- ________ ______ _____ to do the extraordinary: wage your final fight to stay in this country while you are locked up far away from family, your friends -- where lawyers are hard to come by. To fix this and move toward a world without immigration _______, let's stop paying CoreCivic and the GEO _____ to lock up migrants, and let's start paying lawyers to ______ them.

Solution

  1. prisons
  2. defend
  3. asked
  4. immigration
  5. group
  6. ordinary
  7. people

Original Text

The path to a world that's free of immigration prisons does not begin by pretending that migrants are perfect. It starts with a reality check. Immigration law tells us that migrants are aliens. But we all know that migrants are not aliens. Migrants are just people. And like most people, most of the time, migrants are profoundly ordinary -- ordinary people asked to do the extraordinary: wage your final fight to stay in this country while you are locked up far away from family, your friends -- where lawyers are hard to come by. To fix this and move toward a world without immigration prisons, let's stop paying CoreCivic and the GEO Group to lock up migrants, and let's start paying lawyers to defend them.

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