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Political commentators David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to Barack Obama, and Bill Kristol, founder and editor at large of The Weekly Standard,  will reflect on Donald Trump’s election and presidency during Presidential Panel: It Did Happen Here – Reflections on the 2016 Election and its Aftermath.

Few can imagine what it is like to be stateless. Now a new photo exhibit “Nowhere People,” opening Thursday, Sept. 14 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, tells the story.

Leading immigration experts Maria Blanco, executive director of the Immigrant Legal Services Center at the Unversity of California and Aziz Huq, the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg, professor of law at the University of Chicago, will take a look at our immigration landscape, discussing latest issues and decisions impacting U.S. immigration today during a session called Coming to America: Immigration in a New World.

The community of Roosevelt University is deeply concerned by President Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It is un-American to end the protection of 800,000 young people who were brought to our country by parents seeking refuge for their families from war or political oppression, or seeking freedom and opportunity for their children. These are the same reasons generations of immigrants have come to the United States for over 200 years.

Danielle Allen, Harvard University professor, MacArthur fellow and author of the new book Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. will discuss the memoir about her personal anguish in losing a younger cousin as a teen to the criminal justice system and prison. Just released, the book tells a personal story and critiques our penal system that took not only the life of Allen’s cousin, but also a lost generation of young people who face enormous obstacles in returning to a normal life after release from prison. The new book has been featured in the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly and The New Yorker.  A book-signing will follow Allen’s lecture entitled Cuz: The Untimely End of an American  Dream: A Conversation about Race, Justice, Incarceration and the Loss of a Generation.