Name: The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis
Start: 2025-07-05T13:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-05T14:30:00-0500

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

TBA

Historically border enforcement has been a tool of repression and intimidation. While the current administration has shown a cruel escalation in its attacks on the immigrant community, this panel will trace back the roots of these attacks and will make the case to how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism under authoritarianism.

Speakers

Angélica Cházaro

Sergio González

Sergio M. González is a historian of U.S. immigration, labor, and religion. He teaches at Marquette University and is the author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press) and Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press). He is a co-founder and former organizer for the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and is currently completing an edited volume with Lloyd Barba entitled Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with New York University... Read More →

Silky Shah

Silky Shah has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention... Read More →

John Washington

John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. His first book, The... Read More →

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