Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative

As communities, public institutions, and all levels of government respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration authorities have continued to conduct immigration raids, detentions, and deportations. In a recent article "Raids on Immigrant Communities During the Pandemic Threaten the Country’s Public Health", BIMI affiliate Seth Holmes and Miriam Magaña Lopez present findings on how immigration enforcement is undermining public health for immigrants, as well as society as a whole. Holmes and Magaña Lopez also discuss how COVID-19 offers a historic opportunity to consider how we can transform our immigration system to better support the health of all communities.