In-person: Rebecca Sharpless in conversation with Cani Adan & Nasra Ismail
Please join Milkweed Editions, The Binger Center for New Americans, and The Advocates for Human Rights as we present Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, in conversation with Nasra Ismail, the Executive Director U.S. Enterprise at Alight, and Cani Adan, the Executive Director of New Roots Midwest.
About the book
Published by the University of California Press, the book documents how in December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 African refugees for two days while attempting to deport them by plane to Somalia. When national media broke…