Families at the Border: A Reading List

newyorker:

“The Case of the Missing Immigrant Children”

“Trump Administration officials are acting as if there were a secure system in place for dealing with children who are taken away from their parents at the border when there is not.” Read more.

“Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror”

“The American government has unleashed terror on immigrants, and in doing so has naturally reached for the most effective tools.” Read more.

“How the Trump Administration Got Comfortable Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Parents”

“It was a radical idea, one that past Administrations had considered and then dismissed as too extreme and too complicated.” Read more.

“Everything Is Far from Here” (Fiction)

“They tell her to sleep, but that can’t be right. First she has to find her son, who is supposed to be here, too. They were separated along the way, overnight, a few days ago.” Read more.

“No Refuge”

“In the past decade, a growing number of immigrants fearing for their safety have come to the U.S., only to be sent back to their home countries—with the help of border agents, immigration judges, politicians, and U.S. voters—to violent deaths.” Read more.

“The Lost Children”

“Nobody thought that it was good policy to separate parents from children—not immigration officials, not immigrant advocates, not Congress.” Read more.

“The Apathetic”

“Uppgivenhetssyndrom, or resignation syndrome, is an illness that is said to exist only in Sweden, and only among refugees. The patients have no underlying physical or neurological disease, but they seem to have lost the will to live.” Read more.

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