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Immigration
Jump down to: Anti-Immigrant Policies — Border Cities — Detention — General Commentary — ICE & Border Patrol — LatinoLivesMatter — Militarization of the Border — Refugees — Violence Against Migrants and Perceived Non-Citizens
See also: War on Terror
US Court of Appeals rules Obama cannot prioritize keeping immigrant families together, The New Civil Rights Movement, November 10th, 2015
Immigrants in Alabama Hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court Will Provide Relief, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, November 9th, 2015
Texas Can Still Deny Birth Certificates to Children of Immigrants, Colorlines, October 19th, 2015 (archived)
US government deporting Central American migrants to their deaths, The Guardian, October 12th, 2015
Why Sanctuary Cities Must Exist, Los Angeles Times, September 19th, 2015
Guess which state is already accused of denying birth certificates to birthright citizens, Slate, August 19th, 2015
Ending Mass Incarceration, but not for Immigrants: A Tale of Two Policies, Huffington Post, July 27th, 2015
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#BlackLivesMatter CoFounders on Immigration and the Need for Safety Beyond Policing, Democracy Now, July 24th, 2015
Border Hawks Get Trump Bump, Politico, July 23rd, 2015
House Votes to Punish Sanctuary Cities, The Hill, July 23rd, 2015
Does High-Tech Dragnet to Deport Immigrants Go Too Far? NBC News, February 28th, 2014
Blueprint for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2013
Alabama’s New Immigration Law Evokes the Fugitive Slave Act, Lekan Oguntoyinbo in The Birmingham News, June 19th, 2011
see also: #Freedomgiving
Visions From the Inside (2015) – a visual art project inspired by letters penned by detained migrants
100+ Women Now Refusing to Eat in Texas Immigration Detention Center, Colorlines, November 9th, 2015
Gary groups protest proposed immigrant detention center, Northwest Indiana Times, November 9th, 2015
Immigrants object to growing use of ankle monitors after detentions, Los Angeles Times, August 2nd, 2015
Judge Orders Release of Immigrant Children Detained by U.S., New York Times, July 25th, 2015
Black Immigrants’ Lives Matter: Transforming the Dialogue on Immigrant Detention, Truth Out, July 22nd, 2015
Trans woman interrupts Obama at White House LGBT reception, Jorge Rivas for Fusion, June 24th, 2015
ACLU investigates 5 for-profit prisons in Texas, KSAT-12/ABC, June 10th, 2015
The ‘Family-Friendly’ Myths of Family Detention Facilities, Lindsay Nash, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, February 27th, 2015
The U.S. is jailing immigrant women and children under appalling conditions, Shannon Speed in the Global Post, October 10th, 2014
Immigrant Detainees Land in Limbo in Alabama Jail, NBC News, August 21st, 2012
An Anthropologist Unravels the Mysteries of Mexican Migration, National Geographic, December 6th, 2015
Children of the Monroe Doctrine: The Militarized Roots of America’s Border Calamity, Alternet, August 11th, 2014
Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First and Second-Generation Young Men, Migration Policy Institute, 2006 – and a similar report from the National Bureau of Economic Research
State Violence, Asian Immigrants, and the ‘Underclass,’ from States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons, ed. Joy James, 2000
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) & Border Patrol
Wrongly Profiled and Deported, New York Times (op-ed), October 23rd, 2015
Customs and Border Patrol Should Embrace Systemic Reforms, NMPolitics, July 29th, 2015
Customs and Border Protection’s new Internal Affairs chief faces ‘very, very, very tough job,’ Los Angeles Times, July 22nd, 2015
Border Patrol Violence Must Stop, ACLU, June 5th, 2015
Border Patrol Agent Tases, Tackles, Handcuffs Woman for Questioning his Authority, Carlos Miller, PINAC, May 8th, 2015
Disturbing sex abuse alleged at Border Patrol, 10-News/CBS, May 4th, 2015
US Border Patrol is Out of Control, Al-Jazeera America, April 1st, 2015
Judge to Government: National Security isn’t a ‘Magic Word’ that Allows Constitutional Rights Violations, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, March 16th, 2015
Border Patrol sees little reform on agents’ use of force, Los Angeles Times, February 23rd, 2015
Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported, Sarah Mehta, ACLU, December 15th, 2015
Shakedown: Border Patrol’s Confiscation of Migrants’ Money, Cell Phones, Exposes them to Violence post-Deportation, James Lyall, ACLU, December 12th, 2014
A Dangerous Precedent: Why Allow Racial Profiling at or Near the Border? Chris Rickerd, ACLU, December 8th, 2014
Minutemen militia recruiting 3,500 volunteers to patrol U.S.-Mexico border, RT, July 23rd, 2014
Interpreting After the Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History: A Personal Account, Eric Camayd-Freixas, July, 2008 (PDF: Postville ICE raid essay)
Latino Lives Matter/Brown Lives Matter
Doesn’t Life of Latino Shot by Police Matter? CNN News, September 11th, 2015
Why I Launched an Organization to Fight Police Brutality, Latina.com, August 2nd, 2015
Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Police Brutality in the Latino Community? Cosmopolitan, July 31st, 2015
Why the deaths of Latinos at the hands of police haven’t drawn as much attention, Los Angeles Times, July 18th, 2015
There’s a Reason You Haven’t Heard About the ‘Latino Lives Matter’ Movement, TakePart, March 28th, 2015
‘All Lives Matter’: A Deeper Look at Pasco as it Grapples with Police Shooting of Vulnerable Man, Inlander magazine, February 25th, 2015
Why All Communities of Color Must Demand an End to Police Brutality, The Nation, August 20th, 2014
The Billion-dollar Border War: Why Walls and Drones are Bogus, Huffington Post, November 4th, 2015
Skirmish Over Drones on US-Mexico Border, Politico, July 23rd, 2015
Homeland Security Admits $360 million drone program can’t meet its goals, MotherBoard, July 15th, 2015
Inside the U.S. ‘Border-Industrial Complex,’ Spytech Meets Immigration Crackdown, The Guardian, April 26th, 2015
Before the Drone: Genealogy of Aerial Imagery and its Militarization, The Archipelago, March 22nd, 2015
Drones Cost $28,000 for One Arrest, CNN News, February 25th, 2015
Border Drones a Financial and Policy Bust, Americas Program, February 10th, 2015
Drone Addiction on the Border, Common Dreams, January 27th, 2015
Half of US-Mexico Border Now Patrolled Only by Drones, The Guardian, November 13th, 2014
We’re Not at War with Mexico: Drones in Immigration Enforcement, American Friends Service Committee, October 30th, 2013
War on the Border, New York Times, August 17th, 2013
Surveillance Surge on the Border, Tom’s Dispatch, July 11th, 2013
Border Drones Fly Into Fight Over Immigration, NPR, June 11th, 2013
Drone (un)Ethnic on the Border: Philosophers Rationalize Drone Patrols, Devon Pena for Mexmigration, August 10th, 2012
Predators on the Border, Hawks Across the Border, and a Homeland of Drones, TruthOut, March 23rd, 2012
Governors of Michigan, Alabama reject resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states, Washington Post, November 16th, 2015
Violence Against Migrants and Perceived Non-Citizens
Armed Vets Camping Near Border to Stop Drugs, Arizona Public Media, July 31st, 2015
Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, but State Says No Laws Were Broken, Democracy Now, July 16th, 2015
Police Brutality Against Latinos is Unacceptable, Raul Reyes in CNN, June 9th, 2015
Tony Robinson, Ruben Garcia, and Police Brutality Against Brown Bodies, A.B. Wilkinson for the Huffington Post, March 17th, 2015
‘Not Counting Mexicans or Indians’: the Many Tentacles of State Violence Against Black-Brown-Indigenous People – Roberto Rodriguez for TruthOut, February 4th, 2015
Cloaked Brutality: Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants Reveal a Culture of Cruelty, Monica Alonzo for the Phoenix New Times, December 16th, 2010
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