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DU Hosts Panel on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work will host a panel on comprehensive immigration reform on Monday, April 24 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest. Panelists will offer a range of viewpoints on the ethical, legal, social service, economic and theological aspects of the current immigration debate.

Panelists will include Mary Meg McCarthy, director of the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center; Fred Tsao, policy director for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Sioban Albiol, coordinator of the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic of the DePaul University College of Law; and immigration lawyers Donna Altimari Adler, Royal Berg and Marketa Lindt.

Donna Altimari Adler will provide an overview of the current Congressional debate on comprehensive immigration reform and discuss the Catholic Church’s position on the issue. Royal Berg will discuss the billion-dollar budget allotted to the Department of Homeland Security in 2006 specifically for the detention of non-citizens and the address the need for effective legal measures providing non-citizens relief from removal and deportation.

Mary Meg McCarthy will discuss how recent immigration policy changes have adversely affected some of the most vulnerable in the immigrant population, such as asylum seekers, battered women and unaccompanied children. Sioban Albiol will focus on how current immigration policies threaten family unity and affect communities.

Marketa Lindt will explain the potential impact of current immigration proposals on the US economy and Fred Tsao will address how the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights’ efforts to spotlight the plight of the undocumented have affected public officials and decision makers.

For more information on this panel discussion, please contact Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work at (708) 714-9100.