Thursday, November 1, 2007

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Journalism & Immigration, but Were Afraid to Ask at Upcoming Workshop

WHAT PART OF ILLEGAL DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

An immigration law workshop for journalists
Come join us for a friendly discussion with specialists in immigration
law on Nov. 14th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at KERA-TV's community room.

Our guests will be Paul Hunker, chief counsel for Immigration and
Customs Enforcement; Carl Rusnok, PIO for ICE; Liz Cedillo-Pereira and
Fernando Dubove, both Dallas immigration lawyers.

The event is sponsored by the Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate of the
National Association of Hispanic Journalists. It's for media only, and
won't be video-taped for later broadcast.

Immigration is now one of the biggest domestic policy issues. Legal
issues abound. Almost every week, there's a new challenge to federal
immigration processes, as the crackdown on illegal immigrants deepens.
With this immigration law workshop we hope to bring some clarity to such issues as
constitutional due process, the use of warrants and civil versus
criminal offenses.

Among the questions we hope to get answers to:

Do you always need a warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant at their
home? Do you always need a warrant to do a raid at a factory? What is
the difference between illegal entry versus illegal presence and why
was it at the root of the big immigration marches in 2006? How serious
is it to falsely claim U.S. citizenship?

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