Videos tagged with Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project

  • Duke's Immigrant and Refugee Project (DIRP) invites you to join us as we discuss the legal, social, and economic, challenges that DACA recipients face and highlight the resilience of the undocumented communities, the status of community mobilization efforts, and actions allies can take.

    Appearing: Luis Basurto Villanueva JD '21, introductions ; Prof. Kate Evans (Duke Law), moderator ; Reyna Montoya and Vanessa Luna, former undocumented immigrants and activists, and Jeffrey Davidson, a partner at Covington & Burling and a DACA defender.

  • The Duke Immigrant and Refugee Project invites you to join us as we discuss how racial disparities in healthcare make Black and Latinx people less likely to receive a vaccine despite being more likely to become sick from COVID-19 as well as how these disparities intersect with historical distrust of public health systems. Please join us for a conversation between Duke Law's Professor Thomas Williams and Triangle area physician Edith Nieves Lopez. Co-sponsored by Duke Law's ACLU, LALSA, HLS, and the Immigrant Rights Clinic.

  • The second event in our three-part Racial Justice Film Series is a screening of "The Fight." This gripping documentary chronicles four ACLU attorneys and their fight to protect transgender people in the military, to ensure access to abortion for a detained immigrant minor, to prevent a census question about citizenship status, and to reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border.

  • A discussion and Q&A with thought leaders on the merits, issues, and trade-offs of defunding-to-reallocate budget initiatives.

    Appearing: Brandon Garrett (Duke Law), moderator; James Burch (Anti Police-Terror Project), Darrell Miller (Duke Law), and Christy Lopez (Georgetown Law), panelists.