The Immigration “Crisis": Has US Foreign Policy Created It? What Can We Do About It?

When: Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: encuentro 5 • 9 Hamilton Place • Park St T • Boston

A forum cosponsored by United for Justice with Peace and Massachusetts Trust Act Coalition

• What is the "border crisis" and how does it affect Massachusetts?
• What are political and social consequences of terms such as  "illegal aliens"
• How has US foreign policy contributed to the problem?
• How are local communities confronting the criminalization of immigration polices, and helping recently arrived refugees?

Prof. Aviva Chomsky will provide historical context on the creation of the so-called “illegal immigrant” in the US. She will discuss the effects of military aid that the US poured into Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in the 1980s that helped create a violently enforced inequality leading to the problems today. Prof. Chomsky is coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University and author of Undocumented: How Immigration Become Illegal (2014).

Gabriel Camacho is the Immigration Programs Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. Locally the AFSC is on the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Trust Act Coalition. With the protracted death of "immigration reform" at the federal level, and President Obama's repeated delays on executive action, Gabe will speak on conditions facing newly arrived refugee families and how local communities are confronting these issues.

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