For its second annual symposium, the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) will explore abolition as the path to immigrant justice. As immigration detention and deportation continue to perpetuate global inequality, entrenched colonialism, and racial injustice, a movement to abolish ICE and shift government resources to housing, health care, and education continues to grow. The symposium will focus on organizing efforts to end immigration enforcement and detention, the intersection of racial justice and abolitionist movements and lessons learned in abolitionist work beyond the immigrant rights movement.

Schedule
2022
Friday, April 8th
10:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Edward Reilingh, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM

Panel 1 – The View on the Ground: Organizing for Immigration Abolition

Erika Guadalupe Núñez, Juntos
Van Sam, Vietlead
Chia-Chia Wang, American Friends Service Committee

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM

Reflections

Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, Villanova University

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
1:00 PM

Featured Lecture – "Immigration Reform Requires Changing Our Paradigm for Racism and Movement Building"

Ian Haney López, Berkeley Law

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:15 PM

Panel 2 – Breaking Down Silos: Perspectives on Abolition

Caitlin Barry, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Sterling Johnson, Temple University
Jennifer Lee, Temple University - Beasley School of Law
BeKura Shabazz, Criminal Injustice Reform Network
Hezzy Smith, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Olayemi Olurin, The Legal Aid Society of NYC

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM