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Sundays in April - Community Series on Immigration Issues: Addressing
the Hard Questions
This page is an overview of the series. Click on each date to see a more
complete list of activities for that Sunday.
Location: Fed-Ex
Global Center, 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, map, parking
available*
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
April 6 Crime,
Deportation, Criminal Justice and Immigration
Some hard questions we hope to address: 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?
12:30 am-4:00 pm Community Conference: Community Impacts of Local Policy
Responses to Undocumented Immigration
4:00-4:30 pm Break/Reception
4:30-6:00 pm Film: Al
otro lado
A discussion about issues raised in the film, led by Joe Wiltberger and Jonathan
Riesner, will follow the showing.
Funding from the UNC Center for Global Initiatives
Related readings and links
April 13 Economics and Immigration
Some hard questions we hope to address: Why are they
here? Are they depressing wages? Are they taking jobs from non-immigrant North Carolinians?
4:00-5:00 pm Film: Morristown: in the air and sun
5:00-6:00 pm Discussion facilitated by Dani Martínez-Moore, NC Justice
Center
Related readings and links
April 20 Education, Health Care, Social Services
and Immigration
Some hard questions we hope to address: Aren’t they costing us a lot for
schools, health care, social services? Don’t they bring down test scores? Why
is their dropout rate so high? Aren’t they bringing gangs into our schools?
Why should they take higher education places instead of citizens? Aren’t
they overwhelming our public and community health facilities? Don’t they come
with diseases and disease vulnerabilities that affect the rest of us? We can’t
provide mental health care for citizens and legal residents so how can we do that
for these people? If we provide services for immigrants, won’t that encourage
more immigrants to move here?
4:00-4:45 pm Discussion facilitated by Irene Godinez, Advocacy Director
of El Pueblo
4:45-6:00 pm Film: La vida no
es facil
The video maker's son, Torin Martínez, will present this
film.
After the film, students from Pa'lante will talk about their personal experiences
with U.S. education.
Related readings and links
April 27 Politics and Immigration
Some hard questions we hope to address: The following Tuesday will be the NC primary
election. How have the national candidates addressed the immigration issues that
this series has discussed? What can we expect from our state legislature and new
governor? Are there some actions and activities that participants can agree to work
on in NC?
4:00-6:00 pm Discussion and actions
We will invite local political scientists, politicians, and representatives from
our sponsors and other community organizations
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Related readings and links
*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
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