Join the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), The Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, Arizona State University, and Borderlands Studios for an unforgettable VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON TOWN HALL and FILM SCREENING on Friday, May 10 as deported advocates and immigration leaders fight for a “Chance to Come Home.” This powerful live conversation will explore the experience of deportation in the U.S. immigration system & efforts of the unjustly deported to return home.
- Watch a short film by award-winning filmmaker, Alex Rivera, whose film The Infiltrators received two 2019 Sundance Film Festival Awards.
- Meet Howard Bailey, a deported U.S. Navy veteran recently reunited with this family in the U.S. after ten years of exile.
- Learn from renowned immigration expert Ahilan Arulanantham, professor and faculty co-director of The Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law.
- Meet Sarah Hamdi, a DACA recipient fighting to bring her sister Tina back to Ohio after she was deported from the only home she knows, as featured on NPR's "Here and Now."
- **Event moderated by NIJC's Nayna Gupta
In a moment when anti-immigrant rhetoric dominates national discourse, these advocates and artists are reclaiming the narrative on immigration as they fight for a Chance to Come Home.
JOIN US for this unique presentation and conversation on the future of immigration in the United States.
