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A look at immigration 
enforcement through public 
health research and art: ‘ICE 
in the Heartland’ exhibit 

The Adelante Lab, an academic 
team within the School of Public 
Health, hosted a presentation in 
the Michigan League on Saturday 
for the opening of the ICE in the 
Heartland art exhibit. The exhibition 
featured student spoken word and 
visual artwork inspired by the 
Adelante Lab’s research on the 
effects of worksite immigration raids 
conducted by U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement in immigrant 
and mixed-status communities living 
in Texas, Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska and 
Tennessee. 
The exhibition on Saturday aimed 
to showcase the lasting effects of 
immigration raids, in which ICE 
agents target workplaces that employ 
undocumented workers. Through 
their artwork, artists aimed to 
illustrate the chaos and separation of 
families caused by the raids. 
Dr. William Lopez, a clinical 
assistant professor at the School of 
Public Health who leads the Adelante 
Lab, discussed why the Adelante Lab 
planned the event in an interview 
with The Michigan Daily prior to 
the opening of the exhibition. Lopez 
said the Adelante Lab hoped to show 
the viability of discussing the effects 
of large-scale worksite immigration 
raids through visual art.
“Creating art is simply energizing 
in a way that’s really important to 
keep the movements going,” Lopez 
said. “And it’s really important 

Adelante Lab from the School of Public Health 
opens exhibition for spoken word and visual 
artwork in the Michigan League

to be able to have something that 
energizes us to keep going, but also 
that tells a very rich story about our 
communities.”
Lopez and Nicole Novak, an 
assistant 
research 
professor 
at 
the University of Iowa College of 
Public Health, researched the use of 
immigration raids prior to the Trump 
presidency. Lopez said he hoped the 
Trump administration would end 
this practice and described feeling 
disappointed when they did not, 
citing large-scale raids in Iowa and 
Texas in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Lopez 
opened 
the 
event 
by 
thanking the Carceral State Project 
— an interdisciplinary project within 
the College of Literature, Science, 
and the Arts that attempts to address 
mass incarceration, policing and 
immigration detention in Michigan — 
for the funding of their second wave 
of research into how communities 
respond 
to 
raids 
and 
survive 
persecution. 
Public 
Health 
senior 
Kaveh 
Ashtari was the first to perform 
and shared a spoken word piece he 
had prepared. Ashtari told a story 
of returning home to the U.S. after 
visiting Iran, the place where his 
family is from.
“I exited the plane,” Ashtari said. 
“‘Okay, it’s time to lay low and keep 
quiet. If I can get through customs 
without any trouble, I’ll be okay.’”

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La Casa’s 2022 LatinXcellence 
awards celebrates Latinx 
community on campus

American Culture Professor William Calvo-
Quirós speaks; students, faculty and staff gather 
to celebrate the Latinx community on campus

On Friday, over 150 students, 
faculty members and professors 
in the Latinx community came 
together in the Greats Lakes Room 
in Palmer Commons for the annual 
LatinXcellence event hosted by La 
Casa, a student organization at the 
University of Michigan founded to 
support and empower the Latinx 
community on campus. The event 
— La Casa’s last of the academic 
year — welcomed American 
Culture Professor William Calvo-
Quirós as the keynote speaker and 
celebrated the accomplishments 
of the Latinx community through 
various awards. 
LSA 
freshman 
Christian 
Loredo-Duran, 
the 
lead 
coordinator 
of 
LatinXcellence, 

Social Work professor Justin 
Hodge appointed as Chairperson of 
Commission on Community Action 
and Economic Opportunity
“Expanding social and economic opportunity 
have always been among my top priorities,” 
Chairperson Hodge said

Governor Gretchen Whitmer 
has appointed Justin D. Hodge, 
University of Michigan professor 
and 
Washtenaw 
County 
Commissioner, 
as 
Chairperson 
of Michigan’s Commission on 
Community Action and Economic 
Opportunity.
Hodge currently works as a 
clinical assistant professor at the 
School of Social Work and serves 
on the Washtenaw County Board 
of 
Commissioners 
representing 
District 
5. 
Hodge 
was 
first 
appointed to the Commission on 
Community Action and Economic 
Opportunity by Whitmer in 2021. 
He began his term as chair of the 
commission on April 26. 
The Commission on Community 

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spoke on LatinXcellence and what 
it means to the Latinx community 
on campus. 
“(LatinXcellence) is an event 
in which we’re able to celebrate 
one 
another, 
advocate 
one 
another and support one another 
… and (celebrate) all of the 
accomplishments that we have 
had,” Loredo-Duran said. “On 
the personal (level), but also as a 
community, like recognizing how 
we have been able to advocate for 
ourselves and support each other 
throughout the years.”
The 
theme 
of 
this 
year’s 
LatinXcellence was “Si puedes 
soñarlo, puedes hacerlo,” which 
translates to “if you can dream it, 
you can make it happen.” 

Action and Economic Opportunity, 
first established in 1981, works to 
develop policies and programs to 
reduce poverty in the state and 
provide opportunities for low-
income Michigan residents to 
participate in the development of 
such policies. 
At 
the 
University, 
Hodge 
specializes 
in 
government 
and social policy. He has also 
served on the boards of several 
government service and social 
policy agencies, including the 
Washtenaw 
County 
Sheriff’s 
Office Community Advisory Board 
for Law Enforcement and the 
 
Congressional Research Institute 
for Social Work and Policy in 
Washington, D.C.

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