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Lesser-known to most Americans, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has become the object of intense criticism and dispute over the past few years. Calls for its abolition have become a central objective for the majority of immigration activist groups across the country, with attention drawn to ICE’s disproportionate targeting of low-income migrants of color, its use of hostile tactics, engagement in rights abuses, and its overall (budgetary) inefficiency. However, calls to end ICE are not always accompanied by suggestions for what follows, begging the question: what does the ending of ICE entail? Is it a call for the termination of immigration enforcement tout court? Should a new agency take over the task of enforcement? If not, what does this look like? If yes, how can we ensure it is different from the current system? What should perish and what remains, in a post-ICE world?
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.Â
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Peter L. Markowitz is the Associate Dean of Equity in Curriculum and Teaching, Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and is the founding faculty member and co-director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic. The clinic focuses on the intersection of immigration and criminal law and on immigration enforcement issues. It provides deportation defense representation to individuals and represents community-based and national advocacy organizations on impact projects. The clinic and Professor Markowitz have played a central role in many critical innovations in the field of immigration law, for example: creating the nation’s first public defender system for detained immigrants (the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project); developing the concept of detainer discretion (sanctuary laws); developing the first national immigration fellowship program (the Immigrant Justice Corps); and initiating the nation’s first full-service in-house immigration unit located in a public defender’s office (at The Bronx Defenders).
Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at MPI, where she directs the Institute’s U.S. immigration policy work. Her responsibilities focus in particular on the role of immigration in America’s future and on administering the nation’s immigration laws, systems, and government agencies. Meissner's work and expertise also include immigration and politics, immigration enforcement, border control, cooperation with other countries, and immigration and national security.
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.
Alex Aleinikoff is University Professor, and has served as Director of the Zolberg Institute since January 2017. He has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. He recently published a book titled The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, which he co-authored with Leah Zamore. Aleinikoff's book Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship was published by Harvard University Press in 2002. He is a co-author of leading legal casebooks on immigration law and forced migration.
Before coming to The New School, Aleinikoff served as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (2010-15) and was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he also served as dean and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University. He was co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008.Â
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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