Panel Discussion on Immigration Reform in 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 11:00am
Location TBA
MA
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What are our expectations about real changes in our immigration system?
What work should the organized immigrant community continue doing
this 2013 to advance a pro-immigrant a social and economic justice
agenda?
This administration has being focusing on enforcement only and more
than one million immigrants were deported from the U.S during this
administration. Does the government has the political will to make
structural and positive changes to our immigration system?
President Obama won office again with 71 percent of the Latino vote. He has pledged to reform current immigration law.
The panelists:
Lena Graber is a Criminal Justice Fellow at the National
Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Lena Graber’s work
seeks to reduce the government’s abuse of immigration detainers–a tool
used to maintain custody of potentially deportable individuals in local
jails or prisons nationwide. Her work combines advocacy, technical
assistance, and litigation to curb the excessive and unlawful detention
of immigrants caused by detainers; as well as to separate state and
local policing from immigration enforcement. Lena previously worked at
the National Immigration Forum in Washington, D.C., where she helped
coordinate national advocacy to improve border enforcement policy,
analyzed federal budget and appropriations on immigration issues, and
sought less punitive immigration enforcement policies at the national
level.
Oscar Chacon currently serves as Executive Director of the National
Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC). Until
December, 2006, Mr. Chacon was the director of Enlaces América, a
project of the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and
Human Rights. Mr. Chacón served for most of the 1990's as executive
director of Centro Presente in Cambridge, Massachusetts and served for
many years as president of the Salvadoran American National Network
(SANN). Mr. Chacon is a frequent lecturer in national and international
conferences, as well as a media spokesperson on Latino immigrant issues
in the U.S. NALACC, is a transnational network of community-based,
Latino and Caribbean immigrant-led organizations, that is committed to
building a more just society and seeks to raise the quality of life for
immigrant communities in the United States, as well as communities in
migrant-sending countries in Latin America.
Sarahi Uribe has made significant contributions to both the local
and national struggles for immigrant rights. The daughter of immigrants,
Sarahi attended Yale University where she worked for the immigrant
community group Junta and was part of the historic campaign to win
municipal ID cards for all New Haven residents, regardless of status.
Prior to joining NDLON, Sarahi worked as a daylaborer organizer in
Washington DC where she combatted wage theft and severe labor abuses.
She is currently the National Campaign Coordinator at the National Day
Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). At NDLON she's lead a national
campaign to expose the misnamed "Secure Communities" deportation program
resulting in a formal federal investigation into Immigration and
Customs Enforcement's lies.
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