Good Sentences: Immigration

By Junot Diaz (The New Yorker: June 13, 2011)

by Alexander Hermon. Chapter 3 of The Book of My Lives, p. 13-17 (2013)

by Francisco Jimenez, in The Circuit: Stories from the LIfe of a Migrant Child (1997) p. 61-70

by Dave Eggers, found in What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006).

by Roddy Doyle, from The Deportees and Other Stories (2007) p. 1-26

By Gish Jen (New Republic: January 27, 2011)

By Jhumpa Lahiri (The New Yorker: May 24, 2004)

by George Saunders. Published in GQ: (December 13, 2006)

by Francisco Cantu, in Ploughshares Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter 2015-2016) p. 35.

by Edwidge Danticat, in The New Yorker (October 1, 2001)

By Roddy Doyle, The Deportees and Other Stories (2008), available from Penguin Random House

By Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory (1983), available from NPR

By Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (2011)

Naomi Shihab Nye, available from the Poetry Foundation, (1998)

by Richard Blanco, available from richard-blanco.com

by Ray Gonzalez, from Beautiful Wall (2015), made available by the Poetry Foundation.

By Sandra M. Castillo, My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment (2002), available from Poetry Foundation

By W.H. Auden

By Javier Zamora, made available by the Poetry Foundation

by Solmaz Sharif, via Poetry Ireland

By Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers , pp. 3-10 (2016) made available on BookBrowse

by Jose Antonio Vargas, The New York Times Magazine (June 22, 2011)

a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial published in The San Diego Tribune (April 3, 1986). By Jonathan Freedman

By Maeve Higgins (New York Times: January 1, 2017)

By Jess Row, The New York Times ( November 21, 2012)

Tracing the steps of one young Mexican who died in the Arizona desert suggests Trump’s wall won’t do much to deter migrants — and could kill more like him.
By Molly O'Toole, Foreign Policy (March 30, 2017)

by Lauren Smiley, Wired (June 27,2017)

Immigration is inevitable. When will the West learn that it promises salvation — not destruction?
By Suketu Mehta, Foreign Policy (September 12, 2017)

Afghan Army Captain Noorullah Aminyar was once a valuable ally to the American military. But after a failed defection attempt and three years in detention, his asylum claim now rests on the argument that the U.S. has lost its longest war.
By Brian Castner Esquire (August 16, 2017)

Enrique Degenhart tried to clean up Guatemala’s immigration service. His story is part of a nation’s extraordinary fight against corruption.
By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica (June 2, 2016)

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?
By Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker (January 15, 2018)

By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic (April 2018).

By Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker (December 30, 2019)

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Counsel of Record in No. 15-674 in the Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. v. Texas)

Nina Perales, Counsel of Record in No. 15-674 in the Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. v. Texas)

Scott A. Keller, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record in No. 15-674 in the Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. v. Texas)