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Series to focus on immigration issues

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Staff

By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

A community series of presentations and discussions this month seeks to address the hard questions surrounding immigration issues.

The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education is conducting the series on Sundays throughout the month at the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus.

Jane Stein, owner and managing partner of The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Education (CHICLE), said the series is aimed at developing an action agenda regarding immigration issues.

“We just thought that this was a good time to do this,” Stein said, noting the federal immigration legislation that died in committee negotiations last summer.

“There seems to be nothing good happening,” she continued. “As the economy gets worse, the impact is going to fall heavily on immigrants.”

Stein said the kickoff event, held this past Sunday, attracted more than 100 participants and focused on crime, deportation, criminal justice and immigration.

“We were talking about some very hard things that people are going through right now with the number of deportations,” Stein said.

The second event will focus on economics and immigration, looking at jobs, wages and other issues, while the third will examine education, health care, social services and immigration. Both the second and third events will feature related films and discussion.

The fourth and final event will look at politics and immigration, as well as action to be taken. CHICLE has invited several politicians to attend and take part in the discussion.

Stein said she hopes participants will be able to “talk as honestly as we can about the impacts here, both the costs and the benefits.”

Stein noted that while she expected the crowd to be mostly sympathetic toward immigrants, she would like to see all views represented at the series.

“We really want to sort of face the issues that surround any discussion on immigration,” she continued. “To look at just one level of the issue is a mistake.”

CHICLE is a locally owned institute that teaches a number of languages, including advanced classes that combine language and literature.

The FedEx Global Education Center is located on UNC’s campus, on the corner of Pittsboro and McCauley streets. The events will be held the next three Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.chi-cle.com or call 933-0398.

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