In City of Inmates, Lytle-Hernandez discusses two laws that the US Congress passed that had detrimental affects upon different communities, the laws were specifically aimed as specific communities. Chapters 3 and 5 provide us with the stories of these laws that fulled incarceration. What are the similarities between the Geary Act of 1892, the 1924 Immigration Act, and Blease's Law of 1929 (the law is known by different names: Immigration Act of March 9, 1929 and the Undesirable Alien Act of 1929). We are reminded everyday that the US is a nation of laws, in this specific case, what do these two laws say about US life under the color of the law? And what are the similarities and contrast of each law?