An immigration law and policy scholar will visit the SIU-Carbondale campus this month.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández will cover the role of federal courts “in mediating many of the highly contentious immigration policies that the Trump administration has launched since January 2025. He will devote special attention to the U.S. Supreme Court and expects to address cases involving the Fourth Amendment and birthright citizenship.
He is the Gregory Williams chair in civil rights and civil liberties at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law and director of the school’s Latin-x studies program and is the author of three books on immigration.
Cindy Buys, SIU Simmons Law School professor and immigration law expert, says she hopes the audience will get a better understanding of how the current administration’s immigration policies and enforcement actions actually work in practice and whether they are lawful.
Garcia Hernández’s free, public presentation, is at 6 p.m. Wednesday, January 14 in the Lesar Law Building Room 102 at the SIU Simmons Law School. A reception starts the festivities at 5 p.m. in the law school’s formal lounge.
