Immigration & Texas:
NEWS
Many Americans say immigration is out of control, but 24 hours on the Texas-Mexico border showed a new reality. Will it last?:
The Texas Tribune
September 25, 2024
“The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press visited five locations along the 1,254-mile span to separate the facts from the political narrative during a heated election year.” This deeply detailed article covers a plethora of aspects involved in the southern border’s unique ecosystem: from cargo truck inspections in Laredo, to a migrant shelter in El Paso.
Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally. Here’s how it works:
Associated Press
Updated November 1, 2024
“Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration…”
BOOKS
We Were Illegal:
Jessica Goudeau
2024
From Penguin Random House: “Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau’s family have lived in Texas, and her family’s legacy—a word she heard often growing up—was rooted in faith, right-living, and the hard work that built their great state. It wasn’t until her aunt mentioned a stowaway ancestor and she began to dig more deeply into the story of the land she lives on today in suburban Austin, that Goudeau discovered her family’s far more complicated role in Texas history: from a swindling land grant agent in the earliest days of Anglo settlement that brought slavery to Mexican land, up through her Texas Ranger great-uncle, who helped a sociopathic sheriff cover up mass murder.”
FILMS
Del Rio, Texas: How a Race for Sheriff Became a Referendum on Immigration:
ProPublica in partnership with The Texas Tribune
November 3, 2024
This short documentary film covers the 2024 race for the sheriff in the border town of Del Rio. The film sheds light on how border communities are thinking and talking about immigration– a conversation especially important given that the Del Rio sector went red in the 2024 presidential election.
Immigration & the U.S:
NEWS
The New Immigration:
ProPublica
Frequent Updates
This series of articles investigate recent immigration trends, making connections to how those trends effected the 2024 presidential election.
BOOKS
Los Otros Dreamers:
Jill Anderson and Nin Solis.
2014
“A bilingual community-published anthology of stories and photos about the experience of return and deportation to Mexico after having grown up in the United States. Twenty-six youth shared their stories in their own words with Jill Anderson, who then edited their contributions into a collective testimonio. The photographs by Nin Solis offer a distinct but parallel reading of the physical and personal spaces in which these young people are crafting their adult lives in the aftermath of return. In word and image, the book tells a story of the challenges, obstacles, injustices, triumphs, and potential of this bilingual, bicultural generation on the move. It is a combination of art, research and social justice written for a growing bilingual, bicultural audience.” THE BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT. ONLY USED COPIES AVAILABLE FOR RE-SELL.
FILMS
The Infiltrators:
Directed by Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera
2019
“THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center—on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse ‘prison break,’ things don’t go according to plan. By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, THE INFILTRATORS tells an incredible and thrilling true story in a genre-defying new cinematic language.”
Immigration & the World:
BOOKS
Queer and Trans Migrations:
Edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez
2020
From University of Illinois Press: “More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies.
Bridging voices and works from inside and outside of the academy, and international in scope, Queer and Trans Migrations illuminates new perspectives in the field of queer and trans migration studies.”
Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World:
Anna Lekas Miller
2023
“We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don’t have the right passport? With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must confront Kafkaesque immigration systems to be together—as she did to be with her partner.”