AALS Panel on Deportation, Due Process, and Dignity -- Courageous and Multi-Faceted. Radio Cachimbona • Radio

AALS Panel on Deportation, Due Process, and Dignity -- Courageous and Multi-Faceted. Radio Cachimbona • Radio

At the 2026 Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, the International Law and Human Rights Sections hosted a program on Deportation, Due Process, and Human Dignity. Several activists on the ground discussed the responses to the Trump administration. 

Participants:

Moderator: Raquel E. Aldana, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of law, UC Davis

Panelists :

Yvette Borja, Laura E. Gómez Teaching Fellow on Latinx People and the Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Giselle Garcia, Programs Director, Norcal Resist

Leila L. Hlass, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, Tulane University Law School

Cinthia A. Ibarra, former organizer The Philly Climate Works

Evelyn Rangel-Medina, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University, Beasley School of Law

Bamby Salcedo, President and CEO of The TransLatin@ Coalition

Tania Wolf, Southeast Advocacy Manager, National Immigration Project

Professor Yvette Borja, was a panelist and runs a podcast called Radio Cachimbona.  She broadcast the program with authorization. It is available here.

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