# Event Details - **Event Name**: Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join our event to learn about immigration detention history and current strategies to combat ICE.About this EventJoin our open forum on immigration enforcement in the US and the racialization and criminalization of Latine communities, featuring Dr. David Hernández (Latina/o Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy, Mt. Holyoke) and an NYC-based organizer. Dr. Hernández will situate the present within the longer history of US immigration detention and deportation. We will then hear from our organizer about how immigration enforcement is unfolding in NYC and strategies being developed to counter it. Brief presentations will be followed by a Q&A, during which attendees can ask questions and voice their concerns.David Hernández will discuss the broad history of immigration enforcement to help situate the current administration’s overreach and authoritarianism in its anti-immigrant operations. Prior to Trump 2.0, the history of immigration enforcement is generally one of greater freedom achieved over time and progressive reforms of older anti-immigrant social policies. The government eventually did away with Chinese Exclusion, overturned with white racial prerequisites for acquiring citizenship, and revoked racist quotas for entry. Simultaneously, however, since the 1890s, we have witnessed—and are witnessing city streets, workplaces, and homes throughout the country—a long-term consolidation of enforcement powers in the areas of apprehension, detention, and deportation. That is, where social policies have become more inclusive, the enforcement apparatus has become more powerful and punitive. The Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, and its particular brand or racial malice, is simultaneously extraordinary and also part of a tradition of racialized xenophobia. David Hernández is Associate Professor of Latina/o/x Studies and Co-Chair of the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy at Mount Holyoke College. He completed his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley. His research focuses on immigration enforcement, with an emphasis on the U.S. detention regime. He is completing a book on this institution titled Alien Incarcerations: Immigrant Detention and Lesser Citizenship. He is also the co-editor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press 2016). Other work has appeared in journals such as Border-Lines, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Radical History Review, Journal of Race and Policy, Latina/o Studies, and NACLA: Report on the Americas.Readings by Dr. Hernández will be precirculated to registrants should they wish to learn more about his work and the US immigration detention regime.This event is part of a year-long program that CSSD has been organizing, , which explores the crises of disciplinary enforcement at home and abroad.Photo credit: Philip Lindsey, Chicago ReaderEnglish with Spanish Translation.In partnership with the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of Ethnicty and Race at Columbia University. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/criminalizing-race-immigration-detention-and-latine-communities-in-the-us/100001982380425216 - **Event Categories**: sports, business, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Recirculation, a project of Word Up - **lat**: 40.8370336 - **long**: -73.9466566 - **full address**: Recirculation, a project of Word Up, 876 Riverside Drive, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/b077a0851bf5d798c29181ebe7d32e073d42accc5a1101e2fa30b43448326ca0-rimg-w600-h899-dc2e2e2e-gmir.jpg?v=1770439517 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US being held? - **A:** Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US takes place on Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Recirculation, a project of Word Up, 876 Riverside Drive, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US? - **A:** Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US is organized by Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/b077a0851bf5d798c29181ebe7d32e073d42accc5a1101e2fa30b43448326ca0-rimg-w600-h899-dc2e2e2e-gmir.jpg?v=1770439517", "startDate": "2026-02-26", "endDate": "2026-02-26", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/criminalizing-race-immigration-detention-and-latine-communities-in-the-us/100001982380425216", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Recirculation, a project of Word Up", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "876 Riverside Drive", "postalCode": "10032", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.8370336", "longitude": "-73.9466566" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join our event to learn about immigration detention history and current strategies to combat ICE.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-26", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/criminalizing-race-immigration-detention-and-latine-communities-in-the-us/100001982380425216" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/criminalizing-race-immigration-detention-and-latine-communities-in-the-us/100001982380425216", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/columbia-center-for-the-study-of-social-difference/26827293", "description": "The Center for the Study of Social Difference is an interdisciplinary research center supporting collaborative projects that address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.The Center has initiating the yearlong program Countering the Carceral State, for the 2025-2026 academic year, which investigates interconnections between the crises of disciplinary enforcement central to American power at home and abroad. 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