ICE Out of Essex Syllabus |
Best Place to Begin Reading:
#WeWontBeComplicit Action Guide, Cosecha (June 2018)
Simon Romero, “All Over U.S., Local Officials Cancel Deals to Detain Immigrants,” New York Times (June 2018)
“What You Need to Know about the Call to Abolish ICE,” American Friends Service Committee (June 2018)
Whitney Strub, "New Jersey is Addicted to ICE," The Nation (March 2019)
Karl Schwartz, “These New Jersey Counties Make Millions Off ICE,” Socialist Worker (July 2018)
Justin Akers Chacón, “ICE: The Making of an American Gestapo,” Socialist Worker (July 2018)
Essex County, ICE, and the “Inhumane” Conditions at the County Correctional Facility: A Sketch Overview (longer pieces marked with an **)
Matt Katz, "Immigrant Detainee Says He Was X-Rayed for Contraband," WNYC (April 2019)
Lea Ceasrine, "Dozens of ICE Detainees Have Been Placed on Suicide Watch in a New Jersey Facility," DocumentedNY (April 2019)
Matt Katz, "Immigrant Detainees Held in Cells for Days During Lockdown at NJ Jail," WNYC (February 2019)
Matt Katz, "Abandoned Gun, Moldy Bread Pudding and 'Unrecognizable' Hamburgers Found in New Jersey Immigrant Lock-up," WNYC (February 2019)
--also covered by North Jersey Record and NJ Advance Media
“Conditions at Three New Jersey Immigration Detention Centers Are ‘Harsh and Inhumane,’ Report Says,” NBC NY (March 2018)
Eric Kiefer, “Maggots, Squalor For ICE Detainees At 'Inhumane' NJ Jails: Report,” Patch (Feb 2018)
Kelly Heyboer, “Immigrants face maggots and worse in ICE detention in N.J., report says,” NJ.com (Feb 2018)
Monsy Alvarado, “'Harsh and inhumane' conditions seen at three immigrant detention centers in N.J., report states,” NorthJersey.com (Feb 2018)
Eleni Bakst and Olga Byrne, “Ailing Justice: New Jersey: Inadequate Healthcare, Indifference, and Indefinite Confinement in Immigration Detention,” Human Rights First (February 2018)**
Jessica Mazzola, “Solitary confinement is 'excessive' and 'arbitrary' at Essex jail, report finds,” NJ.com (June 2016)
Sonya Chung and Andrea Savdie, "Isolated in Essex: Punishing Immigrants Through Solitary Confinement," New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees, the American Friends Service Committee, and the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic (June 2016)**
Sarah Gonzelez, "Alone and Isolated, the Punishment Piles on for Immigrant Detainees," WNYC (November 2015)
Andrew Lyubarsky & Juan Caballero, “23 Hours in the Box: Solitary Confinement in New Jersey Immigrant Detention,” New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees (June 2015)**
Karina Wilkinson, “Sandy put ICE detainees in danger,” Star-Ledger (Dec. 2012)
Karina Wilkinson, “The “New Normal” for Immigration Detention in New Jersey,” CIVIC: Blog (Dec. 2012)
Jason Grant, “NYU immigration report details disturbing allegations of Essex County detainee treatment,” Star-Ledger (March 2012)
Semuteh Freeman & Lauren Major, “Immigration Incarceration: The Expansion and Failed Reform of Immigration Detention in Essex County, NJ,” NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic (March 2012)**
“Essex County Immigration Detention Expansion, an Invitation for Abuse,” Prison Legal News (2011)**
Kirk Semple, “Plan to Upgrade New Jersey Jail Into Model for Immigrant Detention Centers,” New York Times (Jan. 2011)
Richard Khavkine, “Essex County to receive new detention center for illegal [sic] immigrants,” Star-Ledger (Dec 2010)
Ruben Loyo & Carolyn Corrado, “Locked Up but not Forgotten: opening access to family & community in the immigration detention system,” NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic (April 2010)**
Chanta Jackson, "Jailing federal inmates draws criticism," NJ.com (July 2008)
(documents the beginning of immigrant detention in Essex County, which Joe D calls "a home run for us," but which is opposed by the Policeman's Benevolent Association)
A Brief History of Current Local Activism
Monsy Alvarado, "Newark councilwoman renews calls for Essex County to cut ties with ICE," North Jersey Record (April 2019)
Colleen O'Dea, "Protestors Demand Essex County End Contract to House ICE Detainees," NJSpotlight (April 2019)
Rebecca Panico, "Newark Council President Calls for Essex County to End Contract With ICE," TAPintoNewark (April 2019)
Eric Kiefer, "Activists Rally In Newark: 'No ICE Blood Money At Essex Prison,'" Patch (April 2019)
Editorial board, "Wanted: Real oversight of Joe D’s cruel jail for immigrants ," Star-Ledger (March 2019)
Rob Latz, Open Letter to Freeholder President Brendan Gill, March 2019
Eric Kiefer, "Anti-ICE Christmas Carolers Crash Freeholder Meeting," Patch (December 2018)
Money Alvarado, "Activists protest Essex County contract with ICE to hold immigrants at jail," North Jersey Record (November 2018)
Rebecca Panico, "Essex Freeholders Consider Future of ICE Contract After Denouncing Agency's Spokesman," TAPintoNewark (October 2018)
Whitney Strub and Mary Rizzo, "Mayor Baraka, Oppose ICE in Washington and Also at Home," TAPintoNewark (September 2018)
Whitney Strub and Mary Rizzo, "The silent deception of Newark's 'sanctuary city' status," ThinkProgress (September 2018)
Rebecca Panico, “Protesters Demand Newark City Council to Oppose Essex County's ICE Contract,” TAPinto (September 2018)
Mariana Alfaro, “Democrats Battle Over a New Jersey Jail’s Contract With ICE,” New York Times (August 2018)
Yael Webber, “I was arrested for protesting. 'Abolish ICE' may sound extreme or radical. It's not,” Star-Ledger (July 2018)
Video series of speakers at July 11 Essex County freeholders meeting, Jobs and Equal Rights for All campaign website (July 2018)
“Rally held at Essex County Jail to protest ICE, immigration policies,” News 12 New Jersey (July 2018)
Matt Katz, “Under Trump, Democratic New Jersey Counties Cash in on Detaining Immigrants,” WNYC (July 2018)
Brenda Flanagan, “Essex County Sheriff’s Officers Clash with Anti-ICE Protesters,” NJTV News (June 2018)
Eric Kiefer, “Essex County Candidate Vows To Fight ICE 'Deportation Machine,'” Patch (June 2018)
Karl Schwartz, “Why is a Sanctuary City Profiting Off Detentions?” Socialist Worker (April 2018)
Eric Lerner and Jay Arena, “A Spark to a Wider Fire: Movement Against Immigrant Detention in New Jersey,” Counterpunch (March 2018)
Malik Dessalines, “New Jersey action demands closing of ICE detention center,” Liberation (Feb. 2018)
Matthew Brian Hersh, “Scenes from the Essex County ICE Detention Center Rally,” Blue Jersey (Jan 2018)
“Coalition protests jailing of immigrants in Newark,” News 12 NJ (Jan 2018)
Eric Kiefer, “Essex County Group: End 'Deportation Machine,' No ICE Contract,” Patch (Jan. 2018)
Matt Kadosh, “Protesters in Newark demand stop to ICE detention,” NorthJersey.com (Nov 2017)
Chris Megerian, “Essex County immigrant detention center a house of controversy,” Star-Ledger (Sept. 2011)
(“Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., once called the "Jack Welsh of correctional facilities" for his ability to turn inmates into dollars”)
The Big Picture
Katie McDonough, “A Short, Brutal History of ICE,” Splinter (Feb. 2018)
Domenic Powell, “How to Abolish ICE,” Jacobin (June 2018)
Tania Unzueta, “We Fell in Love in a Hopeless Place: A Grassroots History from #Not1More to Abolish ICE,” Medium (June 2018)
Various authors, “Prison Abolition Syllabus,” African American Intellectual History Society (2016)
Cole Kazdin, “The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US,” Vice (June 2018)
#ICEOutofEssex as an Intersectional Campaign
(For the sake of amassing the broadest possible united front, we are mobilizing around ICE Out of Essex as a single-issue campaign. But as such, it still links to issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class. This is a very small set of articles to help situate the campaign within those contexts)
Jorge Rivas, “Black Lives Matter is Joining the Fight against Deportations,” Splinter (August 2016)
Emily Ramshaw, “A Black Lives Matter Cofounder on How Immigration Policy is Different in Trump’s America--and the Same,” Coveteur (Feb 2017)
Alice Speri, “Detained, Then Violated: 1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Abuse in Immigration Detention,” The Intercept (April 2018)
“Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention,” ACLU
Jorge Rivas, “Trans Woman Who Was Part of Migrant Caravan Dies in ICE Detention,” Splinter (May 2018)
Elise Foley, “LGBTQ Immigrant Detainees Reported Sexual Assaults at Higher Rates,” Huffington Post (May 2018)
Carla Green, “Transgender Honduran Woman’s Death in US ‘Ice Box’ Detention Prompts Outcry,” Guardian (May 2018)
Alex Press, “How Silicon Valley Workers are Revolting against Trump’s immigration policy,” Vox (June 2018)
Lorena Mongelli, et al. “Eatery workers: Boycott Army Base on Pizza Delivery Guy,” NY Post (June 2018)