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“So lukewarm and cold-water showers”: United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Basic Information About Lead in Drinking Water,” EPA.gov, accessed August 2, 2018, https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-information-about-lead-drinking-water.

I come back to Flint almost a year later: Jacey Fortin, “Michigan Will No Longer Provide Free Bottled Water to Flint,” The New York Times, April 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/us/flint-water-bottles.html.

even though they’ve replaced only sixty-two hundred pipes: Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, “Michigan Won’t Give Flint Free Bottled Water, Even Though Lead Pipes Are Still in Use,” Think Progress, April 8, 2018, https://thinkprogress.org/michigan-wont-give-flint-free-bottled-water-d959e535b79b/.

shoot and shoot and shoot shoot and shoot: Michael Cooper, “Officers in Bronx Fire 41 Shots, and an Unarmed Man Is Killed,” The New York Times, February 5, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/nyregion/officers-in-bronx-fire-41-shots-and-an-unarmed-man-is-killed.html.

CHAPTER 5: Cleveland

A Vietnam War vet threw a tantrum: Daniel L. Young, “We Were Never Welcomed Home in Willard,” Norwalk Reflector, March 22, 2017, http://www.norwalkreflector.com/Letter-to-the-Editor/2017/03/22/Forum-Young [inactive].

At a city meeting dedicated to planning the party: Miriam Jordan, “One Ohio Town’s Immigration Clash, Down in the Actual Muck,” The New York Times, June 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/us/willard-ohio-migrant-workers.html.

The city has a population of approximately: United States Census Bureau, “Quick Facts: Willard city, Ohio, V2017,” https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/willardcityohio/PST045217.

One study found that family income: Migration Policy Institute, “Deportation of a Parent Can Have Significant and Long-Lasting Harmful Effects on Child Well-Being, as a Pair of Reports from MPI and the Urban Institute Detail,” Migration Policy Institute, September 21, 2015, https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/deportation-parent-can-have-significant-and-long-lasting-harmful-effects-child-well-being-pair.

Another study found that American-citizen children: Lisseth Rojas-Flores, Mari L. Clements, Josephine Hwang Koo, and Judy London, “Trauma and Psychological Distress in Latino Citizen Children Following Parental Detention and Deportation,” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 9, no. 3 (May 2017): 352–61.

There are no clowns in fields: Nina Shapiro, “A Washington County That Went for Trump Is Shaken as Immigrant Neighbors Start Disappearing,” The Seattle Times, November 9, 2017, updated November 15, 2017, https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/fear-regrets-as-pacific-county-residents-go-missing-amid-immigration-crackdown-police-chief-neighbors-kind-of-in-shock-after-immigration-arrests-in-pacific-county-immigration-crack/.

They’re wearing ankle monitors given to them: Colleen Long, Frank Bajak, and Will Weissert, “ICE Issuing More Immigrant Ankle Monitors. But Do They Work?” Associated Press, August 25, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/dfcdc6302e154753a526c04706df45d6.

There was an ancient Greek belief: Benjamin Woodring, “Liberty to Misread: Sanctuary and Possibility in The Comedy of Errors,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 28, no. 2 (2016).

A few months later, Carter: Bill Keller, “Kevin Carter, a Pulitzer Winner for Sudan Photo, Is Dead at 33,” The New York Times, July 29, 1994.

In 1996, the IRS even made a special provision: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/facts-about-individual-tax-identification-number-itin.

CHAPTER 6: New Haven

Even though half of undocumented people: Alexia Fernández Campbell, “Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants Are an Economic Burden. They Pay Billions in Taxes,” Vox, updated October 25, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/13/17229018/undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes.

According to the Migration Policy Institute: Migration Policy Institute, “Profile of the Unauthorized Population: United States,” https://www.migrationpolicy.orgzdata/unauthorized-immigrant-population/state/US [inactive].

he found his subjects suffered: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, “The Psychic Toll of Trump’s DACA Decision,” The New York Times, September 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/opinion/sunday/mental-health-daca.html.

people forming human chains to block ICE officers: Elisha Fieldstadt, “ICE Came for Their Neighbor, so These Tennesseans Formed a Human Chain to Protect Him,” NBC News, July 23, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-tries-detain-man-tennessee-home-neighbors-form-human-chain-n1032791?fbclid=IwAR3PPeOXZY6fZ1QqQI1Ylnk4uXDGsLQWECR9vKIw7MVaqRa0QQNooWX0788.

This all changed recently, when reports: Viviana Andazola Marquez, “I Accidentally Turned My Dad In to Immigration Services,” The New York Times, October 24, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/opinion/ice-detained-father-yale.html; Noah Lanard, “Married Immigrants Seeking Green Cards Are Now Targets for Deportation,” Mother Jones, April 20, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/married-immigrants-seeking-green-cards-are-now-targets-for-deportation/.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KARLA CORNEJO VILLAVICENCIO has written about immigration, music, beauty, and mental illness for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1, and The New Inquiry, among others. She is a doctoral candidate at Yale and lives in New Haven with her partner and dog.

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