Earlier this year, Los Angeles served as ground zero for the federal government’s pledge to undertake the largest planned immigration enforcement effort in modern U.S. history. Unidentified masked agents swept across the region, detaining immigrants, legal residents and even U.S. citizens, often based on little more than an individual’s appearance or language spoken. The results have been devastating. Families are being separated; businesses remain shuttered, and schools are struggling. The raids, however, have not gone unanswered.

Join us for an important conversation with Mayra Joachín, Immigrants’ Rights Project Deputy Director at the ACLU of Southern California; Carlos Amador, Economic Justice Manager at CLEAN Carwash Worker Center; and Jacob Soboroff, Senior Political and National Correspondent at MSNBC, to discuss the lessons learned from the collective response to the raids. This event will be moderated by Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director at the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. The discussion will examine strategies that worked, and what other cities and states may consider going forward in an unprecedented era of immigration enforcement.

This conversation will be held in-person in Los Angeles and livestreamed. Please register at bit.ly/LessonsInResistance.