Nonfiction Books About ICE, Deportation, Camps, and Abuses of Power in the United States (Part 4)

Published on 2 June 2026 at 15:27

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. Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours by Octavio Quintanilla (poetry, English and Spanish, themes of belonging, border crossing, and loss)
  2. The US Antifascism Reader edited by Bill Mullen and Christopher Vials (a study of American antifascism in the twenty-first century)
  3. Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, By Todd Miller (on the relationship between immigration policy, foreign policy, and climate change)
  4. Abolish Ice: A Passionate Plea for a More Humane Immigration System by Natascha Elena Uhlmann
  5. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Oscar Martinez
  6. Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence, edited by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi and Coline Schupfer (about the technologies used to surveil immigrants around the world)
  7. Kids in Cages: Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention edited by Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Lina Caswell Muñoz, Sarah Diaz
  8. Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World by Jeremy Harding (reporting on immigration politics in Europe and the United States)
  9. Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States by Rafael A. Martinez
  10. Against Borders: The Case for Abolition by Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha (an argument in favor of abolishing borders)
  11. Walled: Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands edited by Andréanne Bissonnette, Élisabeth Vallet
  12. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, by Silky Shah

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