Orders and borders

“Immigration, Borders, and Executive Orders” will address the impacts of potential changes to U.S. immigration and border policies this Saturday, March 4, at Davis Auditorium. The event begins with a panel discussion, free and open to the public, at 11 a.m. Then faculty and students will gather in small groups over boxed lunches to continue the dialogue.

The panelists are Ruben Garcia, founder of El Paso’s Annunciation House, which aids migrants fleeing violence in Mexico and Central America; alumna Heather Drabek Prendergast ’04, chair of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement liaison committee for the American Immigrant Lawyers Association; and Andrea Callan, program director at the Worker Justice Center of New York, offering legal representation and advocacy to secure the rights of low-wage workers.

“Our speakers have unique individual perspectives on policy changes that may impact us locally, statewide, and at the borders,” says Diana Barnes, Spanish professor at Skidmore. She will moderate the discussion.

Afterward, faculty and interested students from Skidmore as well as Colgate and St. Lawrence Universities will gather in small groups for further discussion. Colgate and St. Lawrence, like Skidmore, are members of the New York 6 consortium of colleges funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant. The Saturday event is the culmination of NY6’s "Immigration and Human Rights” faculty-fellows project.