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The US Immigration system is subject to a variety of claims, including allegations of racial profiling and racial exclusion based on foundational laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; the identification of particular events such as the September 11th attacks as transformative influences on the American immigration system; and newer claims that the Trump administration has inaugurated a cruel chapter in the history of immigration policy in the US. The majority of these claims do not reflect positively on the system currently in existence, and a general consensus is that the US immigration system is ‘broken’, to use some of the most common language. But what does this actually mean? How is it broken? Precisely what is broken and why? What principles and values should the immigration system seek to uphold, that it is failing to? Is this failure procedural or structural? And perhaps most important, what changes are necessary for meaningful transformation of immigration enforcement? This panel will start a conversation around these questions, in order to help us engage deeply with the critiques we see today.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
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Aizeki’s work focuses on ending the injustices—including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile—at the intersections of the criminal and immigration systems. Aizeki guides IDP’s local and state policy work, including the ICE Out of Courts Campaign and IDP’s campaigns to end the growing entanglement between local law enforcement and ICE. Aizeki also leads IDP’s project on Surveillance, Technology, and Immigration Policing, which includes building community and legal defenses against ICE raids and the growing homeland security apparatus. Aizeki has organized around racial justice, workers’ rights, and the policing and deportation of immigrants in the interior and at the U.S.-Mexico border for over twenty years.
Beth Hallowell serves as AFSC’s Director of Research and Analytics, where she focuses on research to help advocates, communicators, and activists ‘change the narrative’ on war and violence. She has led numerous studies at AFSC on topics ranging from immigration to criminal injustice to Islamophobia. Prior to AFSC, Beth’s research and program work focused on culture and health inequality in the Americas. The author of numerous articles, her research was most recently cited in Teen Vogue’s retrospective on how Islamophobia has shaped Muslim students’ lives in the 20 years since 9/11. Beth received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.
Kari Hong has been with the Florence Project since June 2021. Hong 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, Hong 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. Â
Hiroshi Motomura is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he also serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the law school’s new Center for Immigration Law and Policy.  Hiroshi is the author of Immigration Outside the Law (2014) and Americans in Waiting (2006); and the co-author of two law school casebooks: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (9th ed. 2021) and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2d ed. 2013).  Before joining the UCLA law faculty, Hiroshi taught at the University of Colorado Law School, where he was named President’s Teaching Scholar in 1997, and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Law, where he was Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law.  He received the UNC Distinguished Teaching Award for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction in 2008, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014, and the UCLA School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021. He is one of 26 law professors in the United States profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (2013).  Hiroshi is a founding director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), and he was a director of the National Immigration Law Center from 2011 through 2020. He is now at work on a book on the future of migration law and policy, supported in part by a Guggenheim Fellowship. The first phase of this project appeared in 2020 in the Cornell Law Review as an article, The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age.
Dora Schriro is a career public servant who has served as an executive-level administrator, policy maker, and homeland security advisor. Schriro has led three state and two city criminal justice agencies and a federal office in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement always focusing on remediation, innovation, and systems reform. Most recently, Dr. Schriro was both the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection from 2014 through 2018, and Connecticut’s Homeland Security Advisor from 2016 through 2018. Previously, Schriro was Senior Advisor to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention and Removal, and the founding Director of the ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning (ODPP) in 2009. During her tenure, she authored the report, Immigration Detention Overview and Recommendations, DHS’ template for immigration detention reform. Since 2013, Dr. Schriro has also served as a Corrections and Immigration Detention Expert.
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Dr. Schriro has been recognized by her peers as the country’s top correctional administrator in 1999; received the National Governors Association Distinguished Service to State Government Award in 2006; earned the Kennedy’s School Innovations in American Government Award for Arizona’s comprehensive pre-release strategy, Getting Ready, in 2008; and was presented with the US Department of Justice Allied Professional Award in 2012 for exceptional service to crime victims. Schriro currently serves on the boards of the ABA Commission on Immigration as Special Advisor and the Women’s Refugee Commission as a Commissioner.
Alexandra Délano Alonso is Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at The New School and the current holder of the Eugene M. Lang Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. She received her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on diaspora policies, the transnational relationships between states and migrants, migration in the Central America-Mexico-US corridor, sanctuary, and the politics of memory in relation to borders, violence and migration. Délano Alonso's work is driven by a concern with the inequalities underlying forced migration, the structures that lead to the marginalization of undocumented migrants in the public sphere, and the practices of resistance and solidarity focused on migrants' access to rights, from a transnational perspective.
Délano Alonso's current research focuses on transformative practices of solidarity across the Central America-Mexico-US migration corridor.
The Abolish ICE? conference aims to bring together migrants, migrant activists, academics, artists, and policy-makers in conversation to generate new ideas 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). The panels put in conversation distinguished scholars, immigrant rights activists, public figures, and government officials for a dynamic discussion.
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