On September 18 an ECC student was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ECC is not the only place where this happened, ICE has detained individuals across the nation. 

To find out more about immigration students and staff can find online documentaries, books, periodicals, journals, and even physical books at ECC’s library. ECC librarian Mary Spevacek helped with finding these sources so that students can find out more about them. 

Documentaries

Below are 10 online documentaries related to immigration. 

1. Untold. Standing up to ICE: how young people are protesting for a fairer America
2. Untold. Never Again Action: young Jews against ICE
3. Five years North
4. 21 miles
5. Sometime, Somewhere
6. Seeking Asylum
7. Lidia celebrates America: the flavors that define us
8. Citizen of Moria
9. A Brief Record of My Fathers Time at Sea
10. Germany’s Neo-Nazis & the Far Right

Physical Books

Students can find physical books at ECC. The call number that appears next to a book shows where you can get that book.

1. Behind crimmigration: ICE, law enforcement, and resistance in America: 1st Floor (364.137 A775b)
2. Encyclopedia of American Immigration, Second Edition Volume 1-3:  2nd Floor (304.873 E563)
3. Family separation and the U.S.-Mexico border crisis: 2nd Floor (325.73 H655f)
4. Immigration Examining The Facts: 2nd Floor (304.873 E137i)
5. “They Take Our Jobs!” and 20 other myths about immigration: 2nd Floor (304.873 C548t)
6. Undocumented Storytellers: narrating the immigrant rights movement: 2nd Floor (304.873 B622u)
7. Immigration and Migration: 2nd Floor (304.873 B155i)
8. American Immigration After 1996: 2nd Floor (304.873 A756a)
9. Immigration: 2nd Floor (304.873 A545i)
10. Not Fit For Our Society: Immigration And Nativism In America: 2nd Floor (304.82 S377n)

Online Books

Online books are also available to the ECC community. These books are similar to the physical ones and have a link below the title for accessibility.

1. Examining threats to ICE operations: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, May 20, 2025
2. Leveraging technology to strengthen immigration enforcement: hearing before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, first session, March 4, 2025
3. Results of an unannounced inspection of ICE’s Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York: final report
4. Protecting the American people against invasion: executive order
5. National detainee handbook: custody management
6. Legacy of harm: eliminating the abuse of solitary confinement: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, second session, April 16, 2024
7. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not follow federal procurement guidelines when contracting for detention services
8. OIDO inspection: Folkston ICE Processing Center
9. OIDO inspection: Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center
10. OIDO review: CBP medical support contract for southwest border and Tucson

Audio Articles

Audio articles are similar to written ones however the delivery in the message is in audio.

1. ICE arrests more than 100 workers in immigration raid in Ohio
2. Strike Zone
3. Nielsen thanks ICE officers for ‘professionalism, dignity and compassion’
4. Dozens of retired judges call on ICE to stop courthouse arrests
5. Anti-ICE protest held in D.C.: ‘No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all
6. Pence: ‘We will never abolish ICE’
7. Pence tells ICE officers: ‘We are with you 100 percent’

Periodicals (Articles)

Periodicals are similar to articles however they are not exactly the same. Articles are a singular piece of content that fits in one periodical. Periodicals cover a broader area and are published in different intervals like a newspaper. 

1. Considerations for Employers to Prepare for Immigration “ICE Storms”
2. The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement
3. LA archbishop calls for prayer, restraint, immigration law reform amid ICE protests
4. Approaching pediatric mental health screening and care in immigration detention
5. Decarceration and COVID-19 infections in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities: a simulation modeling study
6. Using Resilience Theory to Examine Undocumented Students’ “Know Your Rights” Family Communication
7. The immigration subpoena power
8. Duration in Immigration Detention and Health Harms
9. Badar Khan Suri Recounts ICE Detention
10. Safeguarding patient and provider rights in an era of US anti-immigration policies

Periodicals (Journals)

An academic journal is also a  periodical similar to an article; however it is a collection of scholarly articles and can be accessed under the titles down below.

1. ICE enforcement and removal operations report
2. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fiscal year … enforcement and removal operations report
3. Review of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s fiscal year … detailed accounting submission