(Kind of) Live from the University of Michigan Law School
The Michigan Journal of Law Reform immigration reform conference continues.
The second panel on Crimmigration included Michael Kagan, UNLV, who discussed discussed U visas and the process for securing them. Phil Torrey, Harvard, who analyzed modern immigration detention as a tool of immigration enforcement and the mandatory bed quotas. Ingrid Eagley, UCLA, who spoke on her study on the impacts of access (and lack of access) to counsel In removal proceedings. Michael Wishnie, Yale, who offered insights based on successful community activism and efforts at reform designed to protect immigrants in Connecticut. I spoke at the beginning of the panel, looking at the racially-tinged arrest of Adrian Moncrieffe of Moncrieffe v. Holder fame. Since I was on the panel, I did not blog in real time.
Professor Margo Schlanger expertly moderated the panel and subsequent discussion period.
In a stirring and insightful keynote during the lunch hour, Lucas Guttentag, Senior Counselor, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, considered the various impacts, racial and otherwise, of the various immigration reforms since 1965.
KJ