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What is at stake when people call to transform the immigration enforcement system? In recent years, immigration enforcement has been gaining increasing attention from the media, policy-makers, scholars, and the general public. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the fundamental machinery within the Department of Homeland Security in charge of enforcing immigration laws in the interior of the country and investigating international criminal operations and organizations. However, ICE has been faced with accusations of human rights abuses in detention centers, conducting brutal long-term family separations, enforcing zero tolerance policies and racial profiling, along with a lack of accountability and oversight, and the waste and mismanagement of its funding resources. The accruing impact of negative attention has framed ICE as the toxic face of the immigration system, and has inspired a spectrum of responses to transform it.Â
Speculation on how to create change within the immigration system going forward has been a center of attention in recent months. With this in mind, the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility is launching a conversation between migrant activists, academics, and policy-makers. This conference will seek to disentangle ICE as a product of a complex patchwork of legislation, policies, statutes, and guidelines. Our work will lay out the counter-movements that have been created in response to ICE, and seek to generate new ideas to respond to the urgent call for a meaningful transformation of immigration enforcement in the US.
We will host three panels and three roundtables (one on each day: September 21, September 22 and September 23). To view and register, select each panel individually.Â
Hosted by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
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The conference will feature three roundtables and three panels. Panels will put in conversation distinguished scholars, immigrant rights groups, public figures, and state officials. The format of the roundtable will include short interventions followed by a dynamic discussion. The conference will take place online.Â
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Kari Hong has been with the Florence Project since June 2021. Kari has represented nearly 200 individuals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, dozens of people before the Board of Immigration Appeals, and more than 50 people in state and federal criminal court appeals. The Ninth Circuit has issued decisions on more than 100 of her cases, including nearly 30 published decisions. Notable decisions include Cheneau v. Garland, 997 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2021) (en banc) (a person who had established an objective intent to reside in the United States before his 18th birthday is entitled to derivative citizenship), Miller v. Sessions, 889 F.3d 998 (9th Cir. 2018) (a non-citizen ordered in absentia may reopen proceedings in reinstatement proceedings), Lopez-Valencia v. Lynch, 798 F.3d 863 (9th Cir. 2015) (California theft offenses are not aggravated felonies), Ridore v. Holder, 696 F.3d 907 (9th Cir. 2012) (the BIA failed to apply the clear error standard when rejecting the immigration judge’s findings of fact that a U.S. deportee with a criminal conviction will be tortured if returned to Haiti).
Before joining the Florence Project, Kari was a tenured law professor at Boston College Law School where she specialized in immigration law, criminal law, and founded the Ninth Circuit Appellate Program, a clinic in which law students argued cases to the Ninth Circuit. Before teaching, Kari was a solo practitioner specializing in immigration and criminal appeals, with offices in California and Oregon. Kari is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Swarthmore College and clerked for Judge Jeremy Fogel (Northern District of California) and Judge Sidney Thomas (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals).
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