Date: Oct 30, 2007

Hofstra Law School Hosts Local Dimensions of Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Changing Communities

November 9, 2007

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY … Recent trends and changes in immigration and immigrant communities as they affect local governments, businesses, schools, and individuals will be the focus of discussion at a two-day conference titled Local Dimensions of Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Changing Communities at Hofstra Law School on November 9, 2007. Hofstra Law School is presenting this event with Congdon, Flaherty, O’Callaghan, Reid, Donlon, Travis & Fishlinger and Wright Risk Management. The conference comes at a moment when federal inaction has forced local communities across Long Island and across the United States into the forefront of the great immigration debate.  

The conference will address how immigration impacts the local financial industry, housing code enforcement, local law enforcement, education, business compliance issues and ethical issues.  

Local Dimensions of Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities in Our Changing Communities will feature esteemed academics, community leaders, and public servants who are leading, and often opposing, voices trying to guide our local communities through the challenges and opportunities that recent trends in immigration present. The keynote speakers, Michael Cutler and Michael Wishnie, will offer competing visions of a way forward for local communities. Other conference speakers include: Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence W. Mulvey; Nadia Marin-Molina, Executive Director of the Workplace Project; Paul E. Gleason, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Richard V. Guardino, Jr., former Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead; and Muzaffar A. Chishti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute.

Other conference speakers include: Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence W. Mulvey; Nadia Marin-Molina, Executive Director of the Workplace Project; Paul E. Gleason, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Richard V. Guardino, Jr., former Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead; and Muzaffar A. Chishti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute.      

Registration information: $100 per person; $60 for Hofstra alumni, members of the public sector and non-profit. All events, with the exception of meals, are free to the Hofstra community upon presentation of a current HofstraCard. Please register in advance.

To register or for more information contact Dawn Marzella at (516) 463-6889 or e-mail lawdmm@hofstra.edu
The conference itinerary is posted at www.law.hofstra.edu/ImmigrationConference

Related Link: http://www.law.hofstra.edu/ImmigrationConference