TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jan 17, 2025

Combining the disciplines of history and law, Memphis attorney Bryce Ashby and Rhodes College history professor Michael J. LaRosa in a new book explore the economic and historical challenges present in each Latin American nation that force "out" migration. "Immigration, Policy and the People of Latin America: Seven Sending Nations" unpacks the contemporary socio/political and economic realities of the seven sending nations — Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela — and explains the complexity of immigration laws (as passed by Congress), executive actions taken by individual presidents in the United States, and some state initiatives. Read an interview with the authors and Chapter 16.