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KEEP OUT: Immigration, Discrimination, and National Security

As American policy takes a sharp turn right with travel bans, border walls, detentions, and arrests, immigration experts discuss our unprecedented times. Panelists include attorney Lee Gelernt of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project who presented the first challenge to the first executive order on immigration; Joseph Nevins, professor of geography at Vassar College whose work focuses on boundaries, migration, and human rights; and historian Libby Garland, author of After They Closed the Gates, Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965. Moderated by Lizzy Ratner, senior editor at The Nation.











When: Wed., Jun. 7, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont St.
718-222-4111
Price: $10
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As American policy takes a sharp turn right with travel bans, border walls, detentions, and arrests, immigration experts discuss our unprecedented times. Panelists include attorney Lee Gelernt of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project who presented the first challenge to the first executive order on immigration; Joseph Nevins, professor of geography at Vassar College whose work focuses on boundaries, migration, and human rights; and historian Libby Garland, author of After They Closed the Gates, Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965. Moderated by Lizzy Ratner, senior editor at The Nation.

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