CAIR Coalition

Peter Orner, ed., Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2008).

CAIR Coalition’s former Legal Director, Elizabeth McGrail contributed to this powerful and moving collection of oral histories. Underground America brings into intimate focus the lives of specific men and women struggling without the benefit of legal status to make a better life for themselves and their families while forming an integral part of our economy and our community. Click here for more information.

Human Rights First, “U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers: Seeking Protection, Finding Prison” (May 2009)

Tumin, Karen (2007). Immigration Detention Centers under the Microscope: Recent Reports Reveal Widespread Violations of the National Detention Standards. Immigrants Rights Update 21, Issue 6.

Gorman, Anna, “Cities and Counties Rely on U.S. Immigration Detention Fees.”  Los Angles Times 17 March 2009.

Read about the history of immigration detention in the United States.