Immigration Education & Advocacy Resources
Get informed and take action on immigration injustices. The members of our Immigration Team recommend these resources as a starting point for those interested in understanding and advocating for immigration reform. We hope these will open the door to or further support you in your journey towards justice for migrants.
Books
- The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
- Jesus was a Migrant by Deidre Cornell
- Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey by Gena Thomas
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- Ted Talk - "What it's like to be a Child of Immigrants" - Michael Rain
- Ted Talk - "Our immigration conversation is broken - here's how to have a better one" - Paul A. Kramer
- Living Undocumented (Netflix): Documentary series, investigates the diverse stories of migrants caught in the intricate U.S immigration system where uncertainty and pain often battle dreams.
- Immigration Nation (Netflix): Documentary series consists of footage filmed from 2017 to 2020 of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's work during the Trump era. At least one film reviewer described the documentary as "showing the inhumanity and unconscionable cruelty of [the] agency's tactics."
- Share the Journey - Caritas
- Pope Francis' Messages for World Days of Migrants and Refugees
- Jesuit Office of Justice and Ecology
- USCCB - Justice for Immigrants
- A Franciscan Blessing
- Local Organizations
- National Organization