Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion | Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, Héctor Tobar

In the second of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar for a panel on the fight for immigrant rights.

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Francisco Cantú

Francisco Cantú is the author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. (April 2025)

Julia Preston

Julia Preston is a journalist and author. She was a contributing writer at The Marshall Project from 2017 to 2024 and the National Immigration Correspondent for The New York Times from 2006 to 2016. (March 2025)

Héctor Tobar

Héctor Tobar is the author of Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” and the novel The Last Great Road Bum, among other books. He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction and a Professor of Literary Journalism at the University of California, Irvine. (April 2024)

Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His book Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life was reissued last year. (June 2025)