Professor Johnson Quoted in ProPublica About the Legacy of Arizona's Testing Ground for ICE

Professor Kevin R. Johnson was quoted in an Oct. 21 ProPublica story examining the impact of an Arizona county that was one of the nation's first jurisdiction's to enact ICE's 287(g) program that allowed local police to enforce immigration laws. Read the article, "This Arizona county was the 'model' for local police carrying out immigration raids. It ended in civil rights violations."

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson is the director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies and also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law and civil rights.