Two Things Keeping Immigrants Up at Night
Time: Noon to 1:15 pm
Venue: WOW Hall
291 W 8th
Eugene, Oregon
97401
We will meet at the WOW Hall, 291 W 8th. Learn more: https://wowhall.org/about-us/. Walk, ride a bike or take the bus. You may park on the street or in the parking lot of FOOD for Lane County's Dining Room, across 8th from the WOW Hall. A freewill donation acknowledging the Dining Room's generosity may be made at the meeting.
Lunch will be available for $15.
Topic:
Many forces cause fear in the immigrant community in Oregon. Near the top of the list are deportation by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) and challenges to birthright citizenship.
An ICE raid can result in the immediate deportation of one or more members of the family. What are some of the strategies that attorneys are pursuing to slow down the deportations? Who are the targets of these deportations and what are some things that immigrants can do to assist themselves if they are picked up in an ICE raid?
Not quite as immediate, but still a big worry is the challenge to birthright citizenship. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” But what does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” mean?
These questions and more will be discussed by experts in the 14th Amendment and in representing immigrants.
Speakers
Title: Immigration Lawyer
Organization: Hecht and Norman LLC
Website: https://www.immigrationoregon.com/ourteam
Biography:
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Raquel E. Hecht has been an Immigration Lawyer in Oregon since 1993. She is the founding partner of the law firm of Hecht & Norman, LLP, with offices in Eugene and Salem. The firm is dedicated to defending, assisting and educating immigrants from all over the world. Her education includes a BA from NYU, an MA in Latin American Studies and a law degree from UCLA. She has lived in Brazil, Spain, France, Sweden and Italy, and speaks the languages of those countries.
Title: Director, Youth Program
Organization: Community Alliance of Lane County
Website: https://www.calclane.org/programs/citywide/
Biography:
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Kuit Lopez Rojas is 7th generation Aztec nobility with a Huitchol Indigenous Mexican heritage, deeply committed to social justice and community activism. He is the director of Community Alliance of Lane County’s Youth Program, which empowers youth advocacy and activism. CALC is a non-profit organization founded in 1966, dedicated to addressing many of the same issues that have defined it for decades: The struggle for racial justice, immigrant rights, economic justice and educational equity and opposing heterosexism, anti-Semitism and other isms. CALC is challenging war, militarism and the drive for global hegemony, seeking to define true security as everyone having decent housing, education, food, work and health care. Mr. Lopez’s achievements include being founder of Lane County’s first BIPOC youth radio program, Voices of Resistance, airing on 97.3 KEPW; and co-creator of Citywide/Union De Activistas to address the alarming suicide rates among Latino boys during the Trump administration.
Title: Assistant Professor
Organization: University of Oregon School of Law
Website: https://law.uoregon.edu/directory/faculty/all/sati
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Joel Sati is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Professor Sati’s research and teaching interests include in Criminal Law, Immigration Law, Crimmigration, Privacy Law, and Jurisprudence. His dissertation, A Punishment of the Severest Kind: Immigration Enforcement, Social Degradation, and the Harm of Illegalization, develops an account of illegalization, which he defines as state practices of criminalization that use immigration enforcement as the central mechanism of social degradation. Professor Sati’s interest in immigration is more than academic; he is an illegalized immigrant himself and has been an immigrant rights activist since 2012, working on campaigns at the federal level and across various states. Professor Sati was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and has lived in the United States since 2002. Prior to joining the Oregon Law faculty, he studied at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where he graduated with a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. He earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and a BA in philosophy summa cum laude from the City College of New York.
