Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 7:30pm ET
"Immigration, ICE, and Deportation"
Veterans for Peace
Lulu Matute is the Organizing Coordinator for the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), a U.S.-based interfaith organization working to end war and militarization through education, advocacy, and nonviolent resistance. She organizes public events, delegations, and educational campaigns—bringing together lawmakers, activists, scholars, artists, and grassroots organizers to challenge U.S. policies that fuel militarization, extraction, and forced displacement across Latin America.
Her work exposes how these policies criminalize migrants and expand harmful security agendas across the region.
Jenn Budd was a Senior Patrol Agent with the US Border Patrol in San Diego, a Senior Intelligence Agent at San Diego Sector Headquarters and an Acting Supervisory Border Patrol Agent from 1995 to 2002 when she resigned in protest due to the rampant corruption and brutality she witnessed daily. Jenn is the author of the acclaimed memoir “Against the Wall: My Journey From Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist (Heliotrope Books 2002) The book was selected as a finalist in Publishing Triangle’s prestigious Randy Shilts Award, and received an honorable mention in the Los Angeles Book Festival awards.