The Edward Escobar papers consist of his research and writing on police brutality inflicted on the Chicano community throughout the city and county of Los Angeles. They include action plans, agendas, appeals, affidavits, correspondence, interviews, newspapers, oral histories, press releases, proposals, resolutions, speeches, and other legal and printed materials that support his life’s work documenting the impact of mass incarceration.

This collection of papers represents the research material Kelly Lytle Hernandez used for her book: MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010). The book is a history and analysis of the U.S. Border Patrol and how it polices unsanctioned immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.