FLAGSTAFF —NAU’s Immigration Awareness Series to present talk by Allegra Love on “Central American Refugees at Our Border: The Crisis of Family Detention in the United States” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17 at the Martin-Springer Institute located on the 3rd floor of Riles (#15). Please use south entrance of Riles.
Love is an immigration attorney, who worked pro-bono representing families at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Artesia, New Mexico.
Love defended and fought for the rights of the thousands of Central American migrants who entered the United States without proper documentation this past spring and summer. Although many were fleeing desperately violent situations in Central America, migrants were held at remote detention centers like Artesia until they were eventually deported back to their home countries with little regard to their refugee status.
The latest art installation by Shawn Skabelund, Culpable (“Guilty,” a piece inspired by Operation Streamline and the incarceration of undocumented immigrants), will be on display in the same room as the talk.
Skabelund is a Viola Award-winning artist who is committed to provoking thought and exposing injustice.
The event is free and open to the public.
This Immigration Awareness Series event is sponsored by Latin American Studies, NAU–No More Deaths, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Cultural Studies, Honors College, The Student Activities Council, and Women and Gender Studies.
Send an email to latinamericanstudies@nau.edu or call 928-523-0064 for more information.