Mizue Aizeki

Mizue Aizeki is Deputy Director at the Immigrant Defense Project where she focuses on ending injustices related to the entanglement of the criminal and immigration systems, including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile due to criminal convictions. Mizue has organized around racial justice, workers’ rights, and the policing and deportation of immigrants in the interior and at the U.S.-Mexico border since 1995. Mizue is also a photographer whose work has appeared in Dying to Live. A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid, (City Lights Books, 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).