IMMIGRATION & CRIMINALIZATION

Immigration and Agriculture

• YAYA’s Farm Worker Issues: Immigration (.pdf)

• YAYA’s timeline of the history of agricultural labor in the U.S. (.pdf)

• YAYA’s information about AgJOBS

• Farm Workers and Immigration Policy by Andrew Wainer (Bread for the World Institute) (.pdf)

• Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States. A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (.pdf)

• Beneath the Pines: Stories of Migrant Tree Planters. A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (.pdf)

• Farm Workers and Immigration. A fact sheet by the NC Farm Worker Institute (.pdf)

• FILM: H2A Worker by Stephanie Black

• FILM: Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program, a film by Gilbert G Gonzalez, Vivian Price, and Adrian Salinas

• FILM: El Field by Daniel Rosas

• FILM: The Guestworker by Cynthia Hill and Chalres Thompson

Immigration Basics/General Information

• YAYA’s Glossary of immigration policy (.pdf)

• Orlando YAYA’s Immigration Terms (.pdf)

• Learn where the term “illegal” comes from. How the Right Made Racism Sound Fair—and Changed Immigration Politics, by Colorlines

• VIDEO: Drop the I-Word. Don’t Feed the Hate Machine by Racial Justice

• What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand? Mike Flynn and Shikha Dalmia (info graphic)

• Ten Myths About Immigration  by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Poverty Law Center (.pdf)

• Opportunity and Exclusion: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy by Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D (.pdf)

• How Long Do Immigrant Families “Wait in Line”? Sometimes Decades by Stokely Baksh – Colorlines (Info graphic)

• Giving Facts a Fighting Chance: Answers to the toughest Immigration Questions by the Immigration Policy Center (.pdf)

• Special Reports by the Immigration Policy Center. Here you will find reports about anti-immigrant laws, immigration laws, contributions to the economy by immigrants and more! Excellent resource!

• How Migrants Help Fund US Citizens’ Pensions by Mark Stevenson

• VIDEO: Do Undocumented Workers Take Jobs and Lower Wages? by the Real News Network

• VIDEO: Immigration on Main Street by PBS NOW. This video is focused on the debate about how to a approach the issue of undocumented immigrants in America.

• FILM: Farmwingville by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambin

• BOOK: Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, by David Bacon

 

Roots of Migration

• Disposable Workers:Immigration after NAFTA and the Nation’s Addiction to Cheap Labor by Héctor E. Sánchez (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement) (.pdf)

• VIDEOS: Why Do Mexican Workers Head North? by the Real News Network

• BOOK: The Children of NAFTA:Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border by David Bacon

• FILM: The Other Side of Migration by Roy Germano

 

Criminalization

• A Timeline Of Immigrant Criminalization by Deportation Nation

• Immigration Enforcement Off Target: Minor Offenses With Major Consequences by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (.pdf)

 

US/MEX Border

• VIDEO: Crossing the line at the Border By Brian Epstein. Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years.

• VIDEO: Obama’s Border Fence by NOW PBS

• FILM: The Fence by Rory Kennedy

• FILM: 389 Miles by Luis Carlos Davis

• US drones prowl Mexico bicentennial by Aljazeera

• A Culture of Cruelty: Abuse And Impunity In Short-Term U.S. Border Patrol Custody by No More Deaths (.pdf)

 

S-COMM (Secure Communities)

• VIDEO: Immigration crackdown creates insecure communities.  A PBS video about Secure Communities.

• Secure Communities Timeline by Deportation Nation

• Secure Communities: A Fact Sheet by the American Immigration Council

• The Secure Communities Program: Unanswered Questions and Continuing Concerns By Michele Waslin, Ph.D. (.pdf)

•  Secure Communities 101 by Deportation Nation (infographic)

• Restoring Community: A National Community Advisory Report on ICE’s Failed “Secure Communities” (.pdf)

Separation of families

• VIDEO: Shattered Families, a report from ARC

• Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children. A Report by The Urban Institute For the National Council of La Raza (.pdf)

• Left Back: The Impact of SB 1070 on Arizona’s Youth. A report by the University of Arizona (.pdf)

• Shattered Families The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System by the Applied Research Center (Scroll down the page to download a .pdf)

 Anti-Immigrant Laws

• VIDEOS: US Immigration 2010. Videos regarding anti-immigrant laws and criminalization by the Real News Network

• Alabama’s Shame: HB 56 and the War on ImmIgrants. A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (.pdf)

• VIDEO: Help (not) Wanted: Alabama Immigration Law Sparks Feud. A report by Rock Center with Brian Williams.

• VIDEO: For Undocumented Workers, It’s Not-so-Sweet Home Alabama. A report by PSB Newshour.

• NPR: Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law by Laura Sullivan. Read about the way in which corporations influence anti-immigrant laws

• VIDEOS: Arizona State of Fear: Part one and Part two by the Real News Network.

• FILM: 9500 Liberty by Annabel Park

• VIDEOS: (De)segregation and the Mexican American Studies Ban in Tucson, Arizona by the Real News Network

• A Q&A Guide to State Immigration Laws: What you Need to Know if your States is Considering Anti-Immigrant Legislation by the Immigration Policy Center (.pdf)

• Discrediting “Self Deportation” as Immigration Policy: Why an Attrition through Enforcement Strategy makes Life Difficult for Everyone by  Michelle Waslin (.pdf)

 

Detention and Deportation

• VIDEO: Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention. Fault Lines investigates the business of immigrant detention in the US.

• VIDEO: Lost in Detention. FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop examine the Obama administration’s controversial get-tough immigration policy.

• VIDEO: Immigrants for Sale. Immigrants For Sale is a ground-breaking online documentary series that goes inside the private immigrant detention industry, through the lens of those most impacted, the players behind the trade and the multi-billion dollar profits that fuel it all.

• VIDEOS: Facing Deportation, stories of families impacted by NC immigration policies

• VIDEOS: Watch these moving videos  about immigrants and their experiences in the US. Videos include the stories of people under ICE custody including the story of a transgender detainee who was sexually abused, a detainee who dies in a detention center, the stories of returned migrants,  the story of a woman forced to give birth in shackles, the story of immigrants denied medical service and more. Videos by Restore Fairness.

• VIDEO: US system of deportation inhumane by the Real News Network

• FILM: abUSed: The Postville Raid, by Luis Argueta

• Immigrants Behind Bars: How, Why, and How Much? by the National Immigration Forum (.pdf)

• Costs and Consequences:The High Price of Policing Immigrant Communities. A Report by the ACLU of Northern California (.pdf)

• In Hostile Terrain: Human Rights Violations in Immigration Enforcement in the US South West by Amnesty International (.pdf)

• FRONTLINE’s Map: The U.S. Immigration Detention Boom. Map of immigration detention facilities in the US and timeline.

• How Much Sexual Abuse Gets “Lost in Detention”? by FRONTLINE

• DWN’s Detention Map. It shows detention centers, community organizations, ICE Offices and Immigration Courts and Visitation Programs across the country

• Isolated in Detention: Limited Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Detention Facilities Jeopardizes a Fair Day in Court by the National Immigrant Justice Center (.pdf)

• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (.pdf)

• Deportation without Due Processby Jennifer Lee Koh, Jayashri Srikantiah and Karen C. Tumlin (.pdf)

• Locked Up Without End: The Indefinite Detention of Immigrants Will Not Make America Saferby Michael Tan (.pdf)

• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA by Amnesty International (.pdf)

• Dual Loyalties: The Challenges of Providing Professional Health Care to Immigration Detainees by Physicians for Human Rights (.pdf)

• Banking on Bondage: Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration. A report by the American Civil Liberties Union (.pdf)

• Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies. A report by the Justice Policy Institute (.pdf)

• VIDEO: Sergio Adrian Huereca’s Story by SOBOCO Media
  

 

Stories of migration

• VIDEO: The Invisibles by Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal in collaboration with Amnesty International (4 videos). Every year, tens of thousands of women, men and children travel through Mexico without legal permission. As “invisible” migrants they head for the US border in the hope of finding a new life far from the poverty they’ve left behind. Their journey is one of the most dangerous in the world.

• VIDEO: Death Train by Vanguard.Mariana van Zeller joins immigrants from Central America on the perilous and sometimes deadly journey to El Norte.

• VIDEO: Risking it all – Across Mexico: Chasing an impossible dream by AlJazeera

• VIDEOS: Faces of Migration by Witness for Peace. Three videos that tell stories about the perils of migration, those left behind and the people who return to a foreign home after being deported.

• VIDEO: Retorno 360 by Student Action with Farm Workers

• VIDEO: Many Hands, No Faces by Toxic Free NC

• VIDEO: Mixtec Farmworkers in California by UC Television
  

• FILM: Sin Nombre by Cary Fukunaga

• FILM: Brother Towns by Charlie Thompson

• FILM: 7 Soles by Pedro Ultreras

• FILM: La Bestia by Pedro Ultreras

• FILM: La Trajedia de Macario by Pablo Veliz

• FILM: Mojados-Through the Night by Tommy Davis

• FILM: El Viaje de Teo by Walter Doehner

• FILM: Which way Home? by Rebecca Cammisa

• FILM: Northless by Rigoberto Pérezcano

• BOOK: Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

 

Organizations