Webinar Will Deal with Expanding and Unaccountable Powers of Immigration System

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Register for the May 14 Webinar. See link below.

How did the Border Patrol evolve? What kinds of disparities are there in the enforcement and violation of constitutional rights for migrants and allies? What are current developments in the expansion, plans and tactics of ICE? These are among the questions that will be explored in an upcoming webinar, “A Review of the Expanding and Unaccountable Powers of the US Immigration Enforcement System,” scheduled May 14 at 4 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern. Interpreters will be provided. You can register at this link: https://bit.ly/514FRB.

The event is sponsored by Zooming to the Resistance, an informal group that includes representatives of the People’s Tribune and Tribuno del Pueblo; the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program; the Center on Race, Immigration and Social Justice at California State University, Sacramento; and the International Tribunal of Conscience of People’s in Movement, among others.

Pedro Rios, who will be the moderator, is the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program and a longtime human rights advocate and photographer.

The panelists are:

Dr. Marla A. Ramirez is a distinguished social historian specializing in oral history, the Mexican repatriation program, social and legal histories of Mexican migrations, and gendered migration experiences. She is the author of Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.

Todd Miller is the author of four books and is an independent journalist based in Tucson, AZ. He is a co-founder of the Border Chronicle, and his books include Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021), and Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019).

Camilo Perez-Bustillo is a human rights activist lawyer/scholar, law professor, founding member of Witness at the Border/Testigos en la Frontera, and co-founder and coordinator of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement. His publications include books such as Human Rights, Hegemony, and Utopia in Latin America: Poverty, Forced Migration and Resistance in Mexico and Colombia (Brill/Haymarket 2016/2017).

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