This panel and report launch will demonstrate how organizing can be a powerful and effective tool to combat aggressive immigration policing and detention—even in today’s challenging political climate. By highlighting a successful campaign in CUNY Law’s Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic and the Abolish ICE Coalition NY-NJ’s new report, Shut it Down!: The 2021 Grassroots Movement to Abolish ICE Detention in New Jersey, we will discuss what is possible through sustained, collective action.
The event will highlight lessons learned and best practices that can be applied in both current and future contexts. We will examine ongoing political and legal developments since 2021, and how they shape and have changed the terrain of immigration enforcement—particularly as communities continue to resist escalating detention and arrests.
We hope to inspire attendees with actionable strategies—both defensive and offensive—for confronting spaces of control and power. We’ll use the 2021 New Jersey example as a case study of how organizers successfully “flipped the script” in and outside of the immigration jails. The event will serve as both a reflection on past victories and a conversation about the current realities and challenges we face.
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