Illegal

  • Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All
    By Elizabeth F. Cohen

    Last year ICE said a detention bed cost $123.86/day. So at 50k current average daily population, ... Caitlin Dickerson, “Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever,” New York Times, September 12, 2018, ...

  • Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
    By Jose Angel N.

    Ultimately, N.'s is the story of the triumph of education over adversity. In Illegal, he debunks the stereotype that undocumented immigrants are freeloaders without access to education or opportunity for advancement.

  • Illegal: A Disappeared Novel
    By Francisco X. Stork

    I could start with my decision to take that cell phone from Juana Martinez's drawer and go on from there. I made you keep the cell phone and made you promise to contact Yoya. So, you see, there's plenty of blame to go around.

  • Illegal: A graphic novel telling one boy's epic journey to Europe
    By Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin

    This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer,...

  • Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone
    By Terry Sterling

    Terry Greene Sterling enters the fearful ghettoes of Arizona, the gateway for nearly half of the nation's undocumented immigrants and the state that is the least welcoming toward them, to tell the stories of the men, women, and children who ...

  • Illegal
    By Francisco X. Stork

    To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even ...

  • Illegal
    By Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin

    An achingly poignant tale for learning about immigration and current global issues. This book is fiction, but it is based on a very real and terrible journey.