Event

Ghosts of Adelanto & The Rise of Abolish ICE : Preview screening and Conversation with Director Setsu Shigematsu

ASAM Food for Thought Series

Ghosts of Adelanto & The Rise of Abolish ICE

Re-Visioning Abolitionist Futures: Beyond the Walls in conversation with Director Setsu Shigematsu,

The Asian American Studies Program invites you to a preview screening and conversation with filmmaker and scholar Setsu Shigematsu *on *March 20th at noon.

Lunch will be served for all registrants. Please RSVP here!

This event features a new documentary co-produced by Setsu Shigematsu, Cinthya Martinez, and Mayon Denton, which examines the rise of the #AbolishICE movement through the voices and organizing efforts of undocumented student activists from California’s Inland Empire. The film explores abolitionist futures that extend beyond borders, detention, and carceral systems, highlighting collective resistance, political imagination, and community-based alternatives.

Synopsis:

Amid the expansion of I.C.E. raids, this film emerges as bold resistance against a system built on disappearance and family separation. Ghosts of Adelanto exposes how U.S. immigration policy has expanded into a vast machinery of mass detention and deportation, tracing the conditions that made the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda possible. Journeying alongside student activists organizing to abolish I.C.E., the film calls us to imagine—and build—a world free from the violence of border prisons.