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Beth Lew-Williams

Beth Lew-Williams is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University and author of "The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America."

Beth Lew-Williams is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University and author of "The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America."

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For a child migrant, days feel like a lifetime when you’re imprisoned and alone

Immigration

Beth Lew-Williams’ grandfather was 9 when he was separated from family and placed in immigration detention. And he held the pain of the experience for 72 years.