Introductory resources

• “Flipping Our Scripts about Undocumented Immigration”
• “Family separations: the politics, the pushback, and the support” (WHYY Radio Times podcast, 6/21/18)
• “What My 6-Year-Old Son and I Endured in Family Detention”
• “MS-13 Isn’t the Problem Trump Says It Is”
• “The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant”
• “Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend His Border Policy. Statistics Don’t Back Him Up”
• “The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants”
• “It’s official: The Trump administration has replaced family separation with indefinite family detention”
• “Trump responds to “Abolish ICE” with false claims America is being overrun by MS-13”
• “Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights”
• “Border Officials Suspend Handing Over Migrant Families to Prosecutors”
• “How Trump’s Policy Change Separated Migrant Children From Their Parents”
• “Outraged By Kids In Cages? Look At Our Entire Juvenile Justice System.”
• “The Billion-Dollar Business of Operating Shelters for Migrant Children”
• “Navy Document Shows Plan to Erect ‘Austere’ Detention Camps”
• “Trump Administration Launches Effort to Strip Citizenship From Those Suspected of Naturalization Irregularities”
• “ICE Is Sending a Message to the World’s Asylum Seekers: The US Is No Place of Refuge”
• “Border Patrol Falsified Data to Claim Increase in Attacks by Immigrants”
• NPR’s Latino USA

Historical context

• Harvest of Empire (film and book by Juan Gonzalez) (website) (youtube)
• “‘How Immigration Became Illegal’: Aviva Chomsky on U.S. Exploitation of Migrant Workers”
• “The U.S. Helped Destabilize Honduras. Now Honduran Migrants Are Fleeing Political & Economic Crisis”
• “This Has Always Been America”
• “White Extinction Anxiety”
• “The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US”
• “The Root Cause of the Immigration Crisis: The West’s Legacy of Violent Conquest”
• “Yes, your ancestors probably did come here legally — because ‘illegal’ immigration is less than a century old”
• “Think your ancestors came here legally and ‘waited their turn’? Think again”
• “The ethnic segregation of immigrants in the US from 1850 to 1940”
• “The Long History of Child-Snatching”
• “Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Represents an American Tradition”
• “America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations”
• “Mistreating refugee children is, sadly, all too American”
• “How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants. It wasn’t always this way.”
• “Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents”
• “Cages Are Cruel. The Desert Is, Too.”

Action

• Families Belong Together
• “Here’s a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their families”
• “Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border”
• Immigrant Ally Toolkit: Introduction
• “Doctors saw immigrant kids separated from their parents. Now they’re trying to stop it.”
• “It’s Time to Abolish ICE”
• “Don’t stop with family separation. End the whole immigration prison system”
• “Kidnapping and Racial Terror”
• Call Congress
• Contact Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen: Operator Number: 202-282-8000, Comment Line: 202-282-8495
• Make the Road NY
• Make the Road NJ
• Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LALDEF)
• NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice