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Scholars at Iowa City forum warn expanded enforcement and detention threaten migrants, families and local services
Summary
At an Iowa City Foreign Relations Council program, historians Adam Goodman and Lina Maria Murillo traced a long U.S. history of deportation, warned that recent funding and DHS messaging aim to induce self-deportation, and urged support for local mutual-aid and legal organizations.
Iowa City — At a public program hosted by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council on Oct. 3, 2025, historians Adam Goodman and Lina Maria Murillo traced more than a century of U.S. deportation practice and warned that recent federal funding increases and enforcement tactics risk expanded removals, family separations and strain on local services.
"They're meant to terrorize," Lina Maria Murillo said of recent raids and publicity around enforcement, arguing those actions are intended to frighten both targeted communities and the wider public. Murillo cited recent local arrests and national examples to argue that deterrence through spectacle is now an explicit component of policy.
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