Please refer to the following links for more information regarding ICE/CBP, child separations, US immigration, private prisons, and related topics. Included here are news articles, academic research, books, film and video, and advocacy groups.
News Articles
- Questions About Akal Security by Phillip Tanzer
- The Billion-Dollar Business of Operating Shelters for Migrant Children The New York Times
- US migrant centres: Photos show "dangerous" overcrowding BBC
- Family Separation May Have Hit Thousands More Migrant Children Than Reported The New York Times
- Trapped in Gangland: How the MS-13 Crackdown Shattered Immigrant Lives ProPublica (winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing)
- When A Child Is Taken From A Parent The Center for Investigative Reporting (Reveal)
- Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes ProPublica
- Thousands of migrant youth allegedly suffered sexual abuse in U.S. custody Axios
- “Could You Please Check His Status?”: Records Show How A US-Born Marine Ended Up In ICE Custody BuzzFeed News
- ‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border The New York Times
- Why has Guatemala's highlands embraced the American flag? Al Jazeera
Research, Think Tanks, & Academic Studies
- May 2019 Redacted DHS Inspector's Report on dangerous conditions at detention centers
- Deportation and family separation impact entire communities, researchers say Science Daily
- Section 1325 USA Facts
- What You Should Know About the Prison-Industrial Complex ThoughtCo
- Banking On Detention: 2016 Update Detention Watch Network
- Key facts about US immigration policies and proposed changes Pew Research Center
- An Interactive Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy, Past and Present The Choices Program, Brown University
- Undocumented Immigrants The Marshall Project
- Federal Action on Immigration, 2017-2019 National Conference of State Legislatures
- Primer: U.S. Policy on Refugees and Asylum Seekers America Action Forum
- An Overview of U.S. Refugee Law and Policy American Immigration Council
Books
- The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Angela Davis
- Radical Dharma Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah
Advocacy Groups
- Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services RAICES
- Immigrants Rights ACLU
- Mass Incarceration ACLU
- Immigration Detention System Reports Detention Watch Network
- Prison Abolition The Marshall Project
- School-to-Prison Pipeline Rethinking Schools
- Close the Camps
Podcasts, Video, Film
- 13th by Ana DuVernay, available on Netflix
- For recordings of livestream discussions, please visit the Akal and ICE Petition page on Facebook.
- General information video produced by Fatehbir Kaur and released May 2019:
- A video rendering of the PowerPoint delivered by Fatehbir Kaur at the September 2018 council meeting in New Mexico:
- "Why the street gang MS-13 is an American problem" produced by Vox and ProPublica, released August 2018