SUNDAY EVENTS
Sundays in April - Community Series on Immigration Issues: Addressing the Hard Questions

Location: Fed-Ex Global Center, 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, map, parking available*

April 6 Crime, Deportation, Criminal Justice and Immigration

Some hard questions that might be addressed in this session: How does immigration impact North Carolina's criminal justice system? How are law enforcement agencies, state, and local policy makers in North Carolina responding to undocumented immigration? Is deportation a solution to undocumented immigration? How have 287g deportation ordinances impacted communities in Alamance and Mecklenburg County? Aren’t immigrants responsible for a lot of the crime in this area? What happens to the children when their parent(s) are arrested and/or deported? What about border security? How do we know who’s here?

Community Conference: Community Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration

12:30-12:35 pm Welcome remarks

• Deborah Weissman, School of Law, UNC Chapel Hill
  

12:35-12:45 Understanding state and local immigration governance in the U.S.

• How have state and local governments responded to the failure of federal immigration reform?
  Mai Nguyen, City and Regional Planning, UNC Chapel Hill

12:45-1:25 Local law enforcement and anti-immigration initiatives: raids and 287(g) ordinances

• The NC- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic
• Question and Answer

1:25-1:55 Deportation and detainment

• U.S. Deportation Policy: Implementation and family impact
  Jackie Hagan Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill
• Perspectives of deportation from the U.S.-Mexico border.
  Joe Wiltberger, Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
• Question and Answer

1:55-2:05 BREAK

2:05-2:45 Deportation policies and their impact on North Carolina communities

• Why 287g is bad for everyone: the case of Alamance County
  Hannah Gill, UNC Chapel Hill
  
• Immigrants, real estate and the economy in Alamance County
  Brian Nienhaus, Elon University
  
• Immigration and crime in North Carolina
  Lindsay Haddix, City and Regional Planning, UNC Chapel Hill

2:45-3:20 Lessons learned, best practices

• Shaping the Debate: Media and immigration
  Marta Sanchez, UNC School of Education
• Lessons learned from the implementation of local immigration ordinances
  The NC Justice Center and El Pueblo

3:20-4:00 Discussion

4:00-4:30 Reception

4:30-6:00 Film and discussion: Al Otro Lado, a 2005 documentary about immigration and drug trafficking through the lens of Mexico's 200-year-old tradition of corrido music. In this film an aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico, faces two choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the U.S. From Sinaloa, Mexico to the Streets of South Central and East L.A., Al Otro Lado explores the world of drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and the corrido music that chronicles it all. Run time: 70 minutes

• Discussion about issues raised in the film with
  Joe Wiltberger (UNC Anthropology) and Jonathon Riesner (UNC Comparative Literature)

Related readings

Sponsors
CHICLE (The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education)
ISA (Institute for Studies of the Americas – UNC-CH)
ACLU-NC
CALDO
Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA
El Centro Latino
El Pueblo, Inc.
Institute for Southern Studies
NC Council of Churches
NC Justice Center
Pa'lante
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Clinic

Funding from the UNC Center for Global Initiatives

*The FedEx Global Education Center is located on the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley St. in Chapel Hill. It is next door to the School of Social Work and behind the Pharmacy School. Directions from Franklin St: Turn LEFT onto S. Columbia St. from Franklin St. Follow the road through a couple of lights, it will force you to go right, and then take a LEFT turn onto Pittsboro St. you will pass the Carolina Inn on your left. At the next light, you will see the building in front of you. Turn left onto McCauley Street and then right after you pass the building on your right. The parking entrance is under the building on the right and open on weekends.

Please call us at (919) 933-0398 if you want more information. You can also e-mail us.