A Shift Towards Humane Immigration Reforms: Live From Denver

TUESDAY, JUNE 11
PROGRAM #10404 12:00 PM PT

A Shift Towards Humane Immigration Reforms: Live From Denver.

This panel from the site of the TCT’s Building and Bridging Power conference in Denver delves into Colorado’s changing pro-immigrant political landscape, including recent legislative victories amid the rising tide nationwide of anti-immigrant rhetoric, threats of mass deportations, and border-closing policies. Topics include The Immigration Legal Defense Fund for Universal Representation; farmworker protections, including the right to unionize and minimum wage laws; the OmniSalud program, providing subsidized healthcare plans for undocumented residents; the country’s first unemployment insurance fund for undocumented workers; and more.

Guests: Johanna Ulloa Girón, Advocacy Program Manager, The Colorado Trust–A Health Equity Foundation, Denver, CO; Gladis Ibarra, Co-Executive Director, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition-CIRC, Denver, CO; Patricia Alvarez Harrell, Executive Director, Alianza NORCO, Fort Collins, CO; Ricardo Pérez, Executive Director, Hispanic Affairs Project, Montrose, CO; Enrique Orozco, Co-Executive Director, Compañeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center, Durango, CO.

Photo: John MacDonald via Flickr

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