La Brega: A 1902 Deportation Case That Reverberates Today

In 1902, Isabel Gonz lez arrived in Ellis Island, pregnant, alone and with only $11.00 in her pocket. She -like others before her- was detained for being an "alien" and at risk of becoming a "burden" on the state. But Isabel took her fight to the courts, defending her right to stay in the country that had invaded her homeland just four years earlier. She fought all the way to the Supreme Court…