Socialism 2025: Full Schedule

10:00am CDT

Immigration Detention, Inc.

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

While immigration detention is central to Trump's mass deportation plans, the U.S. detention system has been growing for decades. In addition to private prison operators, a whole range of companies and local governments are cashing in. As detention capacity increases, so do webs of economic dependence – and stakeholders who advocate for locking up migrants.

Speakers

Nancy Hiemstra

Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor... Read More →

Sunday July 6, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice, Intro