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Interview with Razeen Zaman

On February 16th 2022, we interviewed Razeen Zaman, the head of the NYU Immigrant Defense Initiative. Razeen was named in Fordham’s 20 in their 20’s and is an immigration law attorney. Razeen spoke about the NYU Immigrant Defense Initiative, speaking about it’s founding in 2017, after former president Donald J. Trump took office. Razeen saw…

Interview with David G. Gutierrez

Interview with David G. GutierrezOn February 16th, 2022 we interviewed David G. Gutierrez, a historian at UCSD in San Diego. David spoke to us about the origins of the fear of immigrants that we see so heavily in the US today. He then spoke to us about why we see the fear today. We learned…

Immigration-Latin America

On Jan 20, my group presented about our social justice project to the class. I helped create the slideshow, and wasn’t nervous at all because I learned a lot in our initial research. One of the things I shared in the presentation was how the crime rate in some countries leads to many migrants flocking to the US, only to be turned away.