Organizations:
Articles:
Border / Deportation Issues:
Healing the Environmental and Cultural Scars of Trump's Border Wall
Nina Lakhani, The Guardian / Grist, 1/31/2021
ICE is Using Obscure Laws to Target Women in Sanctuary
Tina Vasquez, Prism, 12/7/2020
Federal Agents Expelling Asylum Seekers at Border, citing Covid-19 Risks
Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune & ProPublica, 8/4/2020
We are Like Sitting Ducks - Complications from Covid-19
Jeremy Raff, The Atlantic, 3/28/2020
This Family Just Reminded CPB We Don't Lose Our Rights at the Border
Hugh Handeyside, ACLU, 5/22/2020
How the US Asylum System is Keeping Migrants at Risk in Mexico
Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10/1/2019
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 9/2018
When Deportation is a Death Sentence
Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1/8/2018
Hunger Striker Nearing Death in ICE Custody
Mike Ludwig, Truthout, 1/18/2020
Detention Center Issues:
Reproductive Abuse is Rampant in the Immigration Detention System
Brigitte Amiri, ACLU, 9/23/2020
'We Need to Take Away Children', No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said
Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 10/6/2020
US Must Release Children from Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules
Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 6/26/2020
Immigrant Detention Center with Highest Covid-19 Cases Turns Down Donated Masks
Lauren Floyd, Daily Kos, 4/27/2020
The Courts Won’t Free Migrant Children Because of Covid-19
Lyn Rye, Truthout, 4/24/2020
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, The New York Times, 12/2/2019
Family Separations at US Border Plagued by Problems
The Guardian, 3/6/2020
The Facts About Family Detention
Grassroots Leadership, 2/29/2016
Nearly 15,000 Children Held in Detention Camps Across the US
Niles Niemuth, 12/14/2018, World Socialist Web Site
Migrant Children Being Held in Camps in 17 States
Jennifer Epstein and Laura Litvan, Bloomberg News, 6/19/2018
How Many Migrant Children Are Detained in US Custody?
Mona Chalabi, The Guardian, 12/22/2018
The Horrifying Conditions Facing Kids in Border Detention, Explained
Dara Lind, Vox, 6/19/2019
US Immigration Officials Bar Doctors From Giving Flu Shots to Detained Children
Sam Levin, The Guardian, 12/10/2019
Trump’s Child Detention Camps Cost $775 Per Person Every Day
Luke Darby, 6/25/2019, GQ Magazine
Deterring Immigration Through Cruelty in Detention Facilities
Adam Serwer, 7/3/2019, The Atlantic
The History We Should Fear Repeating With Trump’s Migrant Camps
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine, 6/19/2019
The US is Running Concentration Camps at the Border
Jack Holmes, Esquire Magazine, 6/13/2019
How the Trump Administration’s Border Camps Fit into the History of Concentration Camps
Andrea Pitzer, GQ Magazine, 6/18/2019
The Horrifying Conditions Facing Kids in Border Detention, Explained
Dara Lind, Vox, 6/19/2019
Causes of Central American Migration:
How the US Screwed up Latin America in 7 Classic Cartoons
Hyacinth Mascarenhas, Mic, 7/1/ 2014
How US Foreign Policy in Central America
May Have Fueled the Migrant Crisis
Deirdre Shesgreen, USA Today, 12/21/2018
Central American Migration: Root Causes and US Policy
Congressional Research Service, 6/13/2019
Fleeing a Hell the US Helped Create: Why Central Americans Journey North
The Guardian, Julian Borger, 12/19/2018
Migration in Central America - An Analysis of Migration Trends, Drivers, Policy and Actors
Seattle International Foundation
Central American Immigrants in the United States
Migration Policy Institute
How US Foreign Policy Helped Create the Immigrtion Crisis
Jeff Faux, The Nation, 10/18/2017
Causes of Central American Migration (continued):
Almost Half a Century After it Began, America’s ‘War on Drugs’ is Still Devastating Latin America
Nathalie Mercier, The Independent, 1/30/2019
Central America’s Turbulent Northern Triangle
Council on Foreign Relations, 10/1/2019
How US ‘Free Trade’ Policies Created the Central American Migration Crisis
Michelle Chen, The Nation, 2/6/2015
Immigration Policy:
Getting Migration in the Americas Right
Center for American Progress, 6/24/2019
Policy Proposals to Address the Central American
Migration Challenge
Bipartisan Policy Center, 7/26/2019
A New Social Contract for the Northern Triangle
Center for Strategic & International Studies, 5/8/2019
US Strategy for Central America
US Department of State, 12/2018
We Know How to End Drug Violence in Central America
James Stavridis, The FP Group, 3/18/2015
Books:
Migrating to Prison - America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
César Cuauhtémoc Garcîa Hernandez (see his blog at http://crimmigration.com)
Tell Me How It Ends - An Essay in 40 Questions
Valeria Luiselli
Open Borders - The Science & Ethics of Immigration
Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith
The Devil’s Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea
The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantu
(a former border patrol agent)
Unaccompanied, Javier Zamora
Films:
News Reports on Border & Immigration Issues
PBS Frontline
The Wall, USA Today
Icebox, HBO
Living Undocumented, Netflix Documentary Series, 2019
Stuck in Tijuana, Charlie Minn (2018 migrant caravan documentary)
The River & The Wall, Ben Masters
Refuge(e) & Luz’s Story, Sylvia Johnson
Sueño Americano, Camila (music video)
New Family Detention Centers to Hold Immigrant Women and Children, Democracy Now, 8/14/2014
Undocumented, Chris Cashman
The Faces of Family Separation, CBS News, 10/7/2019
Podcasts:
The Out Crowd, This American Life
(Reports on the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy)
Art:
School of Advanced Research / SITE Santa Fe / CCA Exhibitions, "Beyond Borders":
SITE Santa Fe Exhibition, "Displaced"
examining the human experience of the global refugee crisis
Out of Place, Julia Goldberg, Santa Fe Reporter, 10/7/2020
SITE Santa Fe Exhibition, "Hostile Terrain 94"
a participatory art project organized by the Undocumented Migration Project documenting the remains of dead migrants in Arizona
Israel Haros Lopez, poetry, performance, music, visual art, and video
Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello, teeter-totter border wall (video)
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