Organizations:
Articles:
Border / Deportation Issues:
We are Like Sitting Ducks - Complications from Covid-19
Jeremy Raff, The Atlantic, 3/28/2020
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:
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
Almost half a century after it began, here’s how America’s ‘war on drugs’ is still devastating Latin America,
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 (documentary about 2018 migrant caravan)
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
Podcasts:
The Out Crowd, This American Life
(Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's
"Remain in Mexico" asylum policy)
Art:
Israel Haros Lopez, poetry, performance, music, visual art, and video
Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello, teeter-totter border wall (video)
Detention Center Information: