Reaction to anti-ICE protests and the wider context behind the Latino community’s fight for immigration justice

Protests swept across the country last week in response to ICE officers raiding communities and detaining undocumented immigrants. The National Guard was deployed in many state in response to those protests. But the protesting movement itself didn’t appear last week. There is a long history of organizing  especially within Latino communities, which have long led the fight for immigration justice efforts.

Immigration experts from the Latino community discuss the legality of these ICE raids and deportations and what historical and social context is needed to understand this moment.

GUESTS

Xóchitl Bada 
Professor, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Co-Editor, “New Migration Patterns in the Americas: Challenges for the 21st Century”

Gilberto Rosas 
Chair, Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Author, “Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier”

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández 
Gregory Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, The Ohio State University
Author, “Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”