UPDATE, 3/21/18: Suffolk Council Community College will be closed on March 22 due to today's snowstorm. We're hoping to reschedule the dialogue for later in the spring.
Delve into tough questions about immigration with the
authors of
The Politics of Immigration.
Why are people in other countries leaving their homes and
coming here? What does it mean to be “illegal”? How do immigration raids,
prisons, and border walls impact communities? Who suffers and who profits from
our current system – and what would happen if we transformed it?
Thursday, March 22, 2018, 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Montauk Point Room, Babylon Student Center,
Suffolk County Community College
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Office of Campus Activities, Student Leadership
Development, and Foreign Languages and ESL For information, call 631-451-4117.
You can email the authors at
thepoliticsofimmigration@gmail.com
The event is part of “Suffolk Responds: Fight Ignorance, Not
Immigrants,” a week-long series of programs at Suffolk County Community
College to learn how recent decisions concerning immigration policies impact
our neighbors, and how you can make a difference, including:
The Impact of Rescinding TPS on Suffolk
County
Suffolk County Legislator Monica Martinez discusses the
impact of rescinding Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Monday, March 19, 2018 • 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm,
Mildred Green Room, Babylon Student Center, Ammerman Campus,
Selden
Pursuing the Dream
Immigrants share their stories of coming to the U nited
States and their fears and hopes for the future. Speaker: France Dufoo. Tuesday, March 20, 2018 • 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Montaukett Learning Resource Center, Room 108, Eastern
Campus, Riverhead
Know Your Rights: Due Process for TPS
Holders and Undocumented People
Irma Solis of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
will explain individual’s rights when TPS holders and undocumented individuals
come in contact with police or immigration enforcement officers in New York
State. Wednesday, March 21, 2018 • 11:00 am - 12:15 pm, Sagtikos Arts and Sciences Building, Room 259/260, Michael
J. Grant Campus, Brentwood
Film Viewing and Discussion
A film viewing and discussion of the award-winning film
“Documented,” which follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio
Vargas, who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times
Magazine. Wednesday, March 21, 2018 • 6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm, Mildred Green Room, Babylon Student Center, Ammerman Campus,
Selden
We Are United: Rapid Response Training
Our immigrant neighbors are living in terror due to unjust
deportations. It is time for people of goodwill to do something to help them.
This training will provide an overview of what is happening to our immigrant
friends on Long Island and what you can do to support and end deportations.
Speakers: Victoria Daza and Dick Koubek, Long Island Jobs
for Justice, Friday, March 23, 2018 • 10:30 am - 1:30 pm, Mildred Green Room, Babylon Student Center, Ammerman Campus,
Selden
Join authors Jane Guskin & David L. Wilson for a
participatory discussion of themes from their book, The Politics of
Immigration.
