Surveillance Tech and the Fight for Immigrant Justice

For this year's Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture, join Mizue Aizeki (Executive Director, Collaborative Research Center for Resilience), and Make the Road New York’s Luba Cortés (Civil Rights and Immigration Lead Organizer) and Natalia Aristizabal (Deputy Director) for a public conversation on surveillance technology, AI, and immigrant justice. Moderated by Miriam Ticktin, the discussion will examine how automated surveillance systems, predictive technologies, and data-driven policing are transforming border and immigration enforcement as well as immigrant justice organizing in New York City.

As federal investment in AI, surveillance infrastructure, and military technologies continues to expand, immigration enforcement has become a critical testing ground for technologies that enable mass deportation and inaugurate new forms of policing. Drawing on Make the Road New York's decades of expertise in immigration organizing and policy, alongside Surveillance Resistance Lab's recent research on partnerships between federal immigration agencies and technology companies, the conversation will examine the ongoing threats to the rights and dignity of immigrant communities. It will also foreground strategies of community resistance and collective protection that have emerged in response.

The program will also include a Know Your Rights training focused on surveillance technologies.

Accessibility: This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpretation will be provided. Registration is required. A light reception will follow the conversation. 

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