Immigrants in President Trump's America: Criminals and Communities in the New National Security State

Program on Latin America and the Caribbean presents: Julia Preston - Immigrants in President Trump's America: Criminals and Communities in the New National Security State

Julia Preston, Journalist, The New York Times

Julia Preston is a contributing writer covering immigration for The Marshall Project, a non-profit news organization and website.  Before starting that assignment in January, Ms. Preston had been a correspondent and editor at The New York Times for 21 years.  From 2006 to 2016,  she was the National Correspondent covering immigration for the Times. Ms. Preston was a member of the New York Times staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1998, for a series on the corrosive effects of narcotics trafficking in Mexico.  Ms. Preston will discuss President Trump's executive orders on immigration and the expansion of enforcement within the country and at the border under his administration.

Sponsored by the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs