Anjali Enjeti is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a creative writing instructor in the MFA program at Reinhardt University. Her work has appeared most recently in Al Jazeera, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere.
At a moment when compassion for the immigrant is already limited, the immigrant criminal is rarely on the receiving end of it. Yet it is inhumane to punish people multiple times for the same crime.