How We Got to ICE: A conversation with one of America's premier historians of immigration

OLLI at BCC Distinguished Speakers Series
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Tom Gerety with Professor Mai Ngai on:

How We Got to ICE:
A Conversation With One of America's Premier Historians of Immigration

Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. ET

ICE -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- has become the symbol of the Trump Administration's harsh treatment of immigrants.  But in fact ICE is the latest of many episodes of oppression of those who have come to America seeking better and safer lives. 

As part of OLLI's series of discussions of our laws and Constitution under Trump, Tom Gerety will join Mae Ngai of Columbia University to explore the precedents for what has shocked so many of us recently in Minnesota.  

Professor Ngai holds the Lung Family chair in Asian American Studies and History.  She started her career as a labor organizer and teacher in NYC.  She did her PhD at Columbia under the direction of the great historian of abolition, Eric Foner.  She has written several notable books on immigration to America, including Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and Making of Modern America and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of  Chinese America. She has won numerous awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Tom Gerety taught constitutional law through most of his career. He retired as Collegiate Professor of law and humanities at NYU.  He headed up the Brennan Center for Justice and was president of both Trinity and Amherst Colleges. He has law and philosophy degrees from Yale. 

Free and open to all, but pre-registration is required. 

This event will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel: OLLI: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College

OLLI at BCC is also sponsored by Berkshire Health Systems