{"id":791,"date":"2025-10-17T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:35:26","slug":"nyus-annual-detention-and-deportation-conference-means-something-different-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goldentriangledelhiagrajaipur.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/nyus-annual-detention-and-deportation-conference-means-something-different-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU\u2019s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThis conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s true,\u201d migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room\u2019s double doors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The radical act in question was the NYU Migration Network\u2019s Detention and Deportation Conference, hosted in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The conference consisted of four panels covering a range of topics relevant to immigration enforcement and was open to NYU students and the broader New York City community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conference, which has been in the works since last May, comes amidst a backdrop of <\/span>rapidly increasing raids <\/span><\/a>at the hands of ICE and <\/span>nationwide protests<\/span><\/a> against the agency\u2019s weaponization of <\/span>deportation without due process<\/span><\/a> and the influx in <\/span>anti-immigrant rhetoric<\/span><\/a> from the federal government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to look at detention and deportation because we saw them as the main thrust of ICE\u2019s enforcement apparatus \u2014 at the time we couldn\u2019t foresee just how salient and urgent this topic would become,\u201d said Natasha Iskander, the director of the NYU Migration Network and conference organizer, in an interview with WSN.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first panel of the conference, \u201cThe Politics and Policy Under Trump 2,\u201d speakers laid the foundation for understanding the stakes of today\u2019s current political climate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s U.S. program, Tanya Greene, spoke about the inhuman practices of detention facilities such as the <\/span>Krome detention center<\/span><\/a> or \u201c<\/span>Alligator Alcatraz<\/span><\/a>\u201d in Florida and their severe humanitarian violations. She described the Trump administration as a \u201crights-abusive regime\u201d that utilizes ICE raids and mass detentions to grab public attention. Greene sees these unprecedented and unlawful detention practices as testing grounds by the Trump administration to see how far they can go in violating immigration statutes and the Constitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Cox, an NYU Law professor who focuses on immigration, added onto the conversation of today\u2019s changing politics and policies under the Trump administration and its detrimental effects to the immigrant community in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire immigration agenda is just a small piece of a much larger project, and that project is about centralizing control in the person of the president and his senior advisors, and undermining democracy in all kinds of ways,\u201d Cox said in an interview with WSN.<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel, \u201cTechnologies of Detention and Deportation,\u201d walked listeners through the ways ICE uses data and surveillance to track immigrants. William Turton, an investigative reporter from Propublica, shared how he discovered that ICE was accessing comprehensive, private tax data to track down migrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a push to connect to more databases to build a technology of deportation,\u201d Turton said. \u201cThey\u2019ve created a system that has a new data exchange to the Department of Homeland Security for the purposes of immigration enforcement,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Guariglia, a historian and senior policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, emphasized how ICE isn\u2019t just tapping into government databases \u2014 it\u2019s also tapping into local police scanners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cICE is buying millions of people\u2019s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration,\u201d Guariglia said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Panelists also highlighted the tactics used by ICE to push immigrants and asylum speakers to self-deport. Along with the <\/span>financial incentive<\/span><\/a> of $1,000 for immigrants who choose to self-deport, Muzaffar Chishti, a senior Migration Policy Institute fellow and lawyer, expressed how unprecedented policy changes in immigration utilize fear and cruelty as a mechanism for encouraging these communities to self-deport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Miriam Jordan, the national immigration correspondent for The New York Times, left audience members with a powerful question: \u201cAre we still committed to this idea that our country is one of immigrants?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the event\u2019s conclusion, the panel on \u201cActivists in NYC,\u201d featured three speakers who are committed to pro-immigrant advocacy. Nuala O\u2019Doherty-Naranjo, a lawyer who founded the Jackson Heights Immigrant Center in Queens, expressed her concerns for newly arrived immigrants in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen meeting with new arrivals, I\u2019d always tell them: You\u2019re part of this community now,\u201d O\u2019Doherty-Naranjo said.\u00a0 \u201cYou are New York, and you are the future of New York. Celebrate being a New Yorker and don\u2019t hide \u2014 boy, was I dumb.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of sending migrants to court dates, O\u2019Doherty-Naranjo is waking up hours before her workday to represent clients, so they can avoid being present at immigration court due to the recent arrests at immigration courts throughout the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conference concluded with a stressed importance of community. Iskander felt that the panel had met her main goal in being one of the first steps for building a community of people interested in thinking about migration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cImmigrants will always be a part of our community, and throughout the day, we have created a community together,\u201d Iskander said. “Analysis like what we did today, is a kind of advocacy, and I hope everyone is encouraged to carry that advocacy forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Dylan Schmidt and Sam Donagi at culture@nyunews.com<\/em><\/p>\n

This story NYU\u2019s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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