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NEXT WEEK--The League of Women Voters of Orange County will host an April 8 Hot Topics discussion — “Why Immigrant Rights Matter to Us All” — that focuses on threats to immigrants’ due process and what voters can do to counter efforts that weaken everyone’s constitutional rights.
The moderator is Kate Aschenbrenner, an assistant professor who teaches immigration law and directs an immigration clinic at Barry University. Panelists include Ericka Gómez-Tejeda, who coordinates the local Immigrants Are Welcome Here Coalition and also serves as organizing director for the Hope CommUnity Center; Josephine Arroyo, an Orlando attorney who works with immigration cases and also is an assistant professor at Rollins College, and Ryan Gillespie of the Orlando Sentinel, who has reported on immigration issues.
*Note that there will be a Hot Topics Overtime following the program, upstairs at the WP Events Center. A few of the groups who will be there include Hope CommUnity Center, Immigrants are Welcome Here Coalition, and Orlando Singing Resistance.
*There will be a FOOD DRIVE benefitting immigrant populations--non-perishable food items only.
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