For UCLA-Colmex Project, Professor Aldana Discusses Migration Under 'Trump 2.0'

Professor Raquel Aldana gave a talk titled “Primary Observations of the U.S.-Mexico Border, Trump 2.0” as part of a gathering of scholars and other experts and stakeholders organized by the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy and El Colegio de México (Colmex).

The February workshop was the second convening in an ongoing project aimed to address the shifting landscape in U.S.-Mexico bilateral relations and its implications on migration. Aldana’s remarks focused on how and whether externalization practices of migration look different in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017 to serve as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity with a law faculty appointment. She returned to full-time law teaching in 2020. Aldana’s research has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights. Before UC Davis, Aldana was a professor of law at McGeorge School of Law, and the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as associate dean for faculty scholarship at McGeorge from 2013-17. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and Harvard Law School.