2026
August 6, 2026: Critical Migration and Deportation Studies Conference | Baruch College. Submit here until April 30th https://forms.gle/mP4SJmPMKDVqSn9U8
May 15, 2026: Immigration Conference: Asylum in the City: New York’s Past, Present, and Future https://marxe.baruch.cuny.edu/asylum-in-the-city/
April 27-28th, NYU School of Law: 2026 Convening on Right-Sizing Traffic Enforcement https://2026trafficconvening.splashthat.com/
April 17th: ASA CLD Inclusion & Engagement committee’s panel on scholar activism and community engagement
What’s the Issue? Episode 4: Crimmigration: The Criminalization of Immigration Policy and Procedure with Dr. Edwin Grimsley
February 2026: Criminalizing Race: Immigration Detention and Latine Communities in the US https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/ccs-events/2026/2/26/criminalizing-race-immigration-detention-and-latine-communities-in-the-us
February 24, 2026 Immigration Enforcement Policy in North Carolina and Beyond sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Henderson County and El Centro of Henderson County
January 18, 2026, Scholars’ Circle Podcast– ICE the organization, terrorizing communities with its tactics https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-ice-the-organization-terrorizing-communities-with-its-tactics-january-18-2026/
2025
November 20, 2025, The New Frontlines of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 7 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/new-frontlines-trumps-immigration-crackdown
July 25, 2025: What is the daily cost of detaining someone arrested by ICE?https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/07/25/what-is-the-daily-cost-of-detaining-someone-arrested-by-ice
To read more on immigration issues in this moment, check out the Amicus Brief I was happy to sign onto along with other scholars.
2024
What is FAIR? The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 4
2023
10/25/23 Interview on The Aguilar Conversation: Why is crimmigration a growing aspect of immigration policy?
10/15/2023 Beyond Walls Film Discussion with the Immigrant Justice Coalition in Boone, NC
2022
2021 Legislative Session
Outrage mounts to bills targeting cities and counties that defund law enforcement. WLOS | 2/16/2021
Invited Talks/Events
Community Conversation: Prison Conditions and COVID-19 12/27/2021 | The N.C. Justice Center hosted a virtual community conversation on prison conditions and COVID-19, and how incarceration furthers health risk for our community members on the inside.
Vigil Conversations: the Criminalization of Immigrants 12/24/2021 | Professor of Sociology Felicia Arriaga and ACLU of NC’s senior policy counsel Ann Webb hosted a presentation at the Vigil on the criminalization of immigrants and the role of sheriffs in the prison-to-deportation pipeline.
March 1, 2020: Using Policing Data in Your Budget Advocacy
October 2019: Changing the South & Combating Retaliatory Anti-immigrant Legislation, Hot Topic session at The National Lawyer’s Guild Annual Meeting with Alissa Ellis (ACLU-NC), Stefania Arteaga (ACLU-NC), and Julie Mao (Just Futures Law)
October 2019: Hispanic Heritage Month at Virginia Tech https://ccc.vt.edu/calendar/Hispanic-Latino_Heritage_Month.html
Provide Your Input (2020)
House Select Committee on Community Relations, Law Enforcement and Justice
- 9/2/2020: Agenda, Law Enforcement Indicators: Community Response, Use of Force, and Community Engagement presentation by Research Triangle Institute, and North Carolina’s Criminal Justice System presentation by the Criminal Justice Lab in the UNC School of Government
- Recommendations from community survey
- 9/28/2020: Agenda, NC Association of Chiefs of Police presentation, NC Sheriffs’ Association presentation, NC Police Benevolent Association presentation, Overview of Received Recommendations
- 10/13/2020: Agenda, Court Digitization information, Conference of DAs presentation, Indigent Defense Services Presentation, Chief District Court Judge Bradley Reid Allen Sr. (Alamance) Presentation
- 11/18/2020: Agenda, Draft Recommendations
- Additional Documents: North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police- Recommendations on the Evolution of 21st Century Policing, NC Sheriff Association Report on Law Enforcement Professionalism
Press and Community Appearances
Media Briefing: The Neglected Authority of Sheriffs Experts discuss the threat of xenophobic policies and networks influencing sheriffs departments and opportunities for further reporting and investigation. Hosted by: Political Research Associates and The Justice Collaborative
ICE tiene convenios con 50 empresas en Carolina del Norte, Univision, September 16, 2019.
The State of Things: Western NC Reacts To ICE’S ‘New Normal’, March 7, 2019.
The State of Things: How One Immigration Program Is Impacting North Carolinians. October 26, 2018.
The Appeal: Political Report. October 11, 2018. https://mailchi.mp/theappeal.org/politicalreportissue2-346035?e=3ccea8a9cb
La Voz Independiente. July 4, 2018. “Muy Pocos Hispanos Votaron en Henderson.”
Libre. April 28, 2018. Gastonia-Know Your Rights. https://www.facebook.com/libresfer/videos/246106009467316/
Down Home NC-Alamance Chapter. March 7, 2018. 287(g) Community Forum/Foro Communitario. https://www.facebook.com/DownHomeAlamance/videos/344718066015958/
Hola Noticias. December 5, 2017. “ICE deportó a 288 inmigrantes desde Mecklenburg,” https://holanews.com/ice-deporto-288-inmigrantes-desde-mecklenburg/
QuePasa. April 6, 2016. “Cientos protestan en el Triángulo en contra de la nueva ley estatal HB2.” https://raleigh.quepasanoticias.com/noticias/ciudad/local/cientos-protestan-en-el-triangulo-en-contra-de-la-nueva-ley-estatal-hb2
North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. November 12, 2015. “Sanctuary city ban prompts protest at governors mansion.” http://nclbc.com/sanctuary-city-ban-prompts-protest-at-governors-mansion/
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