William D. Lopez

Explores the impact of large-scale ICE worksite raids on immigrant communities in the U.S., particularly under the Trump administration. Documents how these raids tear apart families, disrupt local economies, and instill lasting fear and trauma. 

Examines the community-wide impacts of large immigration worksite raids, focusing on six U.S. towns affected in 2018. Findings reveal how communities responded to the chaos, fear, and hardship that followed, and highlight the lasting harm of raids, offering recommendations to reduce their damage and calls for ending their use.

Critiques the dominant use of the mixed-status family framework in immigration enforcement research, arguing that it reinforces narrow, normative ideas about kinship, care, and deservingness. Proposes shifting to a mixed-status community framework, which better captures the broader and more complex social, spatial, and racial dynamics of immigration enforcement's health impacts.

Discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals in the midwestern U.S.