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Federal immigration enforcement in the United States is increasingly shaped by the convergence of surveillance technologies, data systems, and on-the-ground policing practices. From AI-assisted identification tools to information-sharing across agencies, these developments are transforming how enforcement operates, and raising urgent questions about civil liberties and democratic oversight. This panel will bring together scholars to examine the social and political consequences, and the stakes for rights in an era of technological governance.
The panel will feature David Hausman, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley Law School, Caitlin Patler, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, and Jennifer Urban, Clinical Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law School. Deirdre Mulligan, Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, will moderate.
This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Research Center, the Center for Race and Gender, the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the UC Berkeley School of Information.
Matrix On Point is a discussion series promoting focused, cross-disciplinary conversations on today’s most pressing issues. Offering opportunities for scholarly exchange and interaction, each Matrix On Point features the perspectives of leading scholars and specialists from different disciplines, followed by an open conversation. These thought-provoking events are free and open to the public.
Panelists
David Hausman is an Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law School. He does empirical work on U.S. immigration enforcement, mostly using government data disclosed in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. He also co-directs the Deportation Data Project. Before joining Berkeley, he practiced law at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York City.
Caitlin Patler is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, and faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI), Berkeley Population Center, and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Dr. Patler’s research examines US immigration and criminal laws, legal statuses, and law enforcement institutions as drivers of socioeconomic and health disparities.
Jennifer M. Urban is a Clinical Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she is Director of Policy Initiatives at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Her research focuses on information policy: intellectual property, privacy and data protection, and security. She regularly collaborates with technologists and academics in disciplines other than law to develop empirically grounded understandings of how new technologies and the regulatory structures around them interact with civil liberties, innovation, and creative expression. In March 2021, Urban was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to be the inaugural Chair of the California Privacy Protection Agency Board.
Deirdre K. Mulligan (moderator) is a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and a co-organizer of the Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Working Group. Mulligan’s research explores legal and technical means of protecting values such as privacy, freedom of expression, and fairness in socio-technical systems. Her book Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe, a study of privacy practices in large corporations in five countries, with UC Berkeley Law Prof. Kenneth Bamberger was published in 2015 by MIT Press. Mulligan served as Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), in the Biden-Harris Administration. In November 2025, Mulligan was appointed to Governor Newsom’s California Innovation Council.
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