‘The Undocumented Americans’ Is the Immigration Punk Manifesto We Need Today

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s provocative and compassionate memoir is not for the white gaze

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
10 min readMar 23, 2020

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TThe morning after Donald Trump was elected, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio decided it was finally time to write the book. Back in 2010, when she published an anonymous essay about her…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/