Immigration Enforcement in Our Own Backyard

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Place: Room 6, First Floor
Workshop Track: Immigrant Integration & Civic Participation

While immigration reform in Washington, D.C. has stalled for the past three years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to invade and destabilize immigrant communities. Raids on homes and workplaces tear families apart. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in local jails continues to be threat as is the increasing trend towards local law enforcement collaboration with federal authorities. This workshop will discuss local efforts, both successful and unsuccessful, to halt immigration enforcement activities by the police and sheriff departments across a number of cities.

The Asian Pacific American Legal Center is a California State Bar certified provider of MCLE credits and this workshop has been approved for 1 hour of credit. To receive California MCLE credit, attorneys must pay an additional $10 per workshop that offers MCLE credit. Payment collected separately onsite.

Speakers:

	Cynthia Buiza Director of Policy and Advocacy Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles		Angela Chan Staff Attorney Asian Law Caucus (Workshop Moderator)
	Belinda Escobosa Helzer Staff Attorney American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California