Community Discussion on Deportation Abolition
Please join us in a dialogue centering the interplay between community centered-perspectives and Tulane Professor Laila L. Hlass's work on deportation abolition. Professor Laila L. Hlaas, a panelist at the Asylum Conference, has written on the lack of lawyers in the deportation abolition movement. In her forthcoming article, Lawyering from a Deportation Abolition Ethic, she addresses the tension lawyers face reconciling their duties as officers of the court and as advocates with their clients, needing to find a way to operate within a system they seek to abolish. Our community has worked within the broken immigration system on behalf of individual clients and, at the same time, challenged the system in creative ways. Join us for a public discussion on this dichotomy and refining focus of future advocacy efforts.