October 2025 Civic Buzz: U.S. Immigration Policy in 2025: Incarceration and deportation without due process

The Statue of Liberty welcomes the “huddled masses yearning to live free,” but our immigration policy has strayed from that American ideal.

Check out the recording for the October 2025 Civic Buzz

Our speaker, immigration attorney Kari Hong, has represented more than 250 people before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was invited by the Court to serve on the Ninth Circuit Rules Committee. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous publications and her commentary has been featured in many national outlets, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, SCOTUS Blog, and CNN.   Kari grew up in Northfield, Minnesota and is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia Law School.  She was a tenured law professor at Boston College for 10 years and currently is the Ninth Circuit Attorney with the Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project, in a position created for her.