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The term “crimmigation” has gained popularity as a way to describe the merging of the criminal and immigration system in the U.S. In contrast to the traditional approach prevalent throughout the majority of U.S. history, recent developments in the use of immigrant detention has changed the face of the immigration system altogether. The increasing criminalization of immigration has sparked some foundational questions: Is it possible to imagine a system of immigration not based on enforcement, or is enforcement a necessary feature? To what extent? And if we can imagine that this is not the case, what would such an immigration system resemble? This panel will act as a space to pose difficult questions and open up the floor for imagining new possibilities.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a scholar of migration who regularly weighs in on pressing public affairs.
Currently the Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and a law professor at Ohio State University, García Hernández has been publishing crimmigration.com since 2009. His first book, Crimmigration Law, was published by the American Bar Association in 2015. His second book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, was released in 2019 by The New Press. A second edition of Crimmigration Law is scheduled for release in the second half of 2021.
Sophia Elena Gurulé is a public defense attorney representing incarcerated immigrants facing deportation at The Bronx Defenders in the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project. She is also immigration policy counsel at The Bronx Defenders and focuses on ending ICE detention, ICE's collaboration with local law enforcement, and the exclusion of people with criminal arrest histories from legislative efforts to broaden pathways to U.S. citizenship. Sophia also participates in the Abolish ICE NY-NJ coalition, which has worked to end the existing ICE contracts with local jails in New York and New Jersey and to ensure people are released, and not transferred, upon the termination of those contracts.
Prior to joining The Bronx Defenders in 2017, Sophia interned with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Sylvia Rivera Law Project. She is a graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was the recipient of the Telford Taylor Award for outstanding achievement in the fields of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, and graduated cum laude from Fordham University with a B.A. in Latin American Studies/Latino Studies and International Studies. Sophia is an abolitionist, feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and proud union member of ALAA UAW Local 2325.
Nicole Narea is an immigration reporter for Vox based in Austin, Texas. She has written about the human cost of harsh detention and deportation policies, why they have failed at their intended purpose of deterring migrants and how the US could adopt a more humane approach. She started on the immigration beat in 2017 at the trade publication Law360, where she covered it from a legal perspective. Her work has also appeared in Politico, NPR, the New Republic and Washington Monthly, among other publications. She is a second-generation Chilean immigrant and received her B.A. in history from Yale University.
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.
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.
Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. In 2019-20, she was a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. McNevin's research spans three broad areas: the transformation of citizenship and sovereignty, the regulation of borders and migration, and spatial and temporal dimensions of world politics. Her first book, Contesting Citizenship (Columbia UP, 2011), examines mobilizations by irregular migrants in the US, Europe and Australia in the context of neoliberal globalization.
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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