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Immigration Crisis At Southern Border To Be Discussed At Ripon College

8 March 2020 News


RIPON — “Immigration Crisis: Lives at Risk at Our Southern Border,” a panel discussion, will be presented March 12 at Ripon College. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Kresge Little Theater, East Hall. It is sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People and La Unida, the College’s student Hispanic group.

 

The panel will include Maria Mendoza-Bautista, director of the College’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion; student Maythe Salcedo ’23 of Round Lake Beach, Illinois, a member of La Unida; and Kat Griffith, a Ripon resident who recently returned from the border. Griffith is an interpreter for the Section of the Americas of the Friends World Committee on Consultation, an international federation of Quakers.

 

Brian Smith, professor of religion and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, will be the moderator. The panel will discuss what is happening at the United States’ southern border to migrants, particularly those from Central America, who are seeking asylum in the United States.

 

Asylum and refugee claims involve a complicated set of rules, requirements and procedures. The panel will explore these rules, the length of the asylum process, and the conditions under which asylum seekers are housed in the United States. It also will explore the steps some Americans have taken to support those seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.


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