Book Displays: Equal Justice Initiative 2023: Videos

Jamil Sunsin is the only person in his family born in the U.S. His parents and sister came from Honduras and lived in the U.S. for a decade before Jamil's father was arrested for being undocumented. The entire family was forced to return to Honduras, a country wracked with violence. After a knife attack, Jamil is traumatized, and becomes terrified to leave home. The family makes an excruciating choice to send him back to the U.S. Now 15, Jamil tries to survive without his family and fights against a broken immigration system. Back in Honduras, his sister Mirka, who would've been eligible for DACA had she remained in the US, struggles to adapt, hoping to someday reunite with Jamil. This intimate portrait is a rare look into the aftermath of deportation and family separation, amidst the current backlash against America's immigrants.

"Ni aquí, ni allá illuminates the challenges facing an undocumented college student and her family. Blanca, a second-year student at the University of California, Berkeley, crossed the border from Mexico into the United States with her parents when she was a child. As a student under the California DREAM Act who possess DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Blanca has temporary protection from deportation, though her undocumented parents, who live and work in California's agricultural Central Valley, do not. 'Ni aquí, ni allá' paints an intimate portrait of an undocumented family as they support each other during a turning point in their lives and stay together through the distance.

What's happened to the more than 2,000 families who were separated after crossing the U.S. border unlawfully in 2018? How did immigration policy in America reach this point? This program examines immigration policy under the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of "zero tolerance" and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.

For the Velasco family, life in California feels like an American dream. But having stayed in the U.S. under a program called Temporary Protected Status, it's a dream that may soon end. President Trump plans to halt TPS for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Latin America and Haiti. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on what's at stake for the Velascos and families like them.

Examines how the lives of Muslim Americans have been affected in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. It focuses on six Muslim families--U.S. citizens and long-time legal residents from diverse countries and widely different circumstances. In one way or another, all of them have been targeted: by federal agencies, hate groups, and even former friends, solely on the basis of their religious beliefs. Family separations, threats of deportation, repeated airport detentions, and unexpected travel restrictions have become part of the daily lives of thousands of Muslims, who are innocent of any crimes or even suspicious behavior. If one group can be singled out because of their religious beliefs, then who's next?