Nonfiction Books About ICE, Deportation, Camps, and Abuses of Power in the United States (Part 3)

Published on 6 May 2026 at 16:03

Welcome back! This resource series focuses on ICE and deportations in the United States. Painful experiences with ICE, immigration, seeking refuge, and deportation in the United States can impact people at any age, including children, young adults, and families. The nonfiction books below are written for adults. They bring a human element to stories about immigration, dealing with the pain of deportation, and the loss of safe harbor. You can also find resources, support, and information about your rights when dealing with ICE or other immigration officials in the links under this paragraph.

Resources Related to ICE and Deportation

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Books About ICE, Deportation, Camps, and Abuses of Power in the United States

  1. Once I was You by Maria Hinojosa (a personal account immigration and the rhetoric around it)
  2. They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigration, by Aviva Chomsky (deconstructing anti-immigrant talking points)
  3. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (a discussion of migration within the US and its comparison to other migration stories)
  4. The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right by Enzo Traverso (discussing fascism in the twenty-first century)
  5. The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, by Adam Goodman (an exploration of US deportation strategy)
  6. We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond by Eileen Truax, translated by Diane Stockwell (exposing corruption in the American asylum process)
  7. American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants, by Robert Bartholomew & Anja Reumschussel (a history of immigrant communities and their treatment over 250 years)
  8. The Deportation Express: A History of America by Forced Removal by Ethan Blue
  9. Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (an indigenous perspective on US history and immigration)
  10. The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond by John Washington (discussing the Trump administration's changes to US refugee policy)
  11. No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, by Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis (discussing the context of border crossing along the US-Mexico border)

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