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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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