Image: From History.com, How Border-Crossing Became a Crime in the United States.
Books
Patrick Ettinger: Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930.
Adam Goodman: The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez: Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Torrie Hester: Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy.
S. Deborah Kang: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.
Daniel Kanstroom: Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History.
Julia Rose Kraut: Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States.
Miguel Antonio Levario: Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy.
Eithne Luibheid: Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border.
Deirdre M. Moloney: National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882.
Jessica Ordaz: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity.
Cristina Salinas: Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century.
Cristina Salinas & Kenyon Zimmer: Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance.
Eliot Young: Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.
Articles
Adam Goodman:
- How 1970s U.S. Immigration Policy Put Mexican Migrants at the Center of a System of Mass Expulsion.
- See more by Adam Goodman here.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: The political history of locking up immigrants in the U.S.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez:
- The History of How Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border Became a Crime.
- Largest deportation campaign in U.S. history is no match for Trump’s plan. Operation Wetback actually eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
- America’s mass deportation system is rooted in racism.
S. Deborah Kang: How the U.S. Border Patrol Persuaded Congress to Legalize Unfettered Searches in Wide Border Zones.
Julia Rose Kraut:
- Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States.
- With Friends Like These: On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
Douglas S. Massey: The Mexico-U.S. Border in the American Imagination.
Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: How a 1929 law turned undocumented entry into a crime.
Jessica Ordaz: Migrant detention centers have a long history of medical neglect and abuse: The link between medical abuse, racism and immigration runs deep.
Jessica Ordaz & Alejandra Portillos: Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s #Pride tweet conceals a violent history: Immigration policy has long been a weapon to police gender and sexuality.
Jennifer Szalai: New Looks at the Fate of Foreigners in America, From the Privileged to the Most Vulnerable.