José Jorge Mendoza and Amelia Wirts featured at Ethics of Immigration Enforcement Symposium at Rock Ethics Institute

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The Ethics Of Immigration Enforcement Symposium is being held at Penn State University at the Rocks Ethics Institute on March 17-18, 2022, both in person and virtually. The event is free and open to the public, but registration for the virtual events is required.

José Jorge Mendoza will be giving the keynote lecture, “Crimmigration and the Ethics of Migration,” on Friday, March 18th at 11:30 am ET. Zoom registration: bit.ly/EIE221803L

Amelia Wirts is part of the panel discussion “Law Enforcement and Systemic Oppression” on March 18th at 2 pm ET.  Zoom registration: bit.ly/EIE221803P

This interdisciplinary event aims to bring together researchers at Penn State in the humanities, law, and social sciences who are engaged in research at the intersection of immigration and policing. Many aspects of immigration law and its enforcement, in the United States and elsewhere, fall short of what justice demands. Some aspects of immigration enforcement—like family separation—are especially egregious and the easiest to criticize. But it is far more challenging to formulate a coherent vision of what immigration policy should be than to simply identify what it should not be. Equally challenging is determining the ethical responsibilities of policymakers and law enforcement officials who must act under nonideal conditions. Moreover, histories of colonialism, racial discrimination, and violence and their lasting legacies complicate the requirements of justice for present-day immigration policy.

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