Thread: Immigrant rights group sponsoring Border Conference

Immigrant rights group to continue dialogue
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 09/17/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

# Visit conference Web site

Immigrant rights advocates are organizing a border-wide conference in El Paso this winter in an effort to keep the border from being buried in electoral year politics.

The event, "Building a New Vision of the Border: A Conference on Border Policy," is scheduled for Nov. 29 and 30 at the Camino Real Hotel in Downtown El Paso. Organizers from the Border Network for Human Rights and the U.S-Mexico Border and Immigration Task Force hope to bring together 100 to 150 representatives from border cities by invitation only.

The task force is co-chaired by El Paso County Attorney José RodrÃ*guez and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Manny Ruiz of Arizona, and includes many elected officials, law enforcement officials, academicians and others.

Border Network for Human Rights executive director Fernando Garcia said there is no precedent for the border wide conference.

"We've had conferences for religious workers, or focused on the environment, or on border security, but not a conference to give a voice to border communities," he said.

During the Border Security Conference at the University of Texas at El Paso in August, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he did not want to destroy the border in order to save it, Garcia said. "But it's true they are destroying it. They are just reacting. Right now there is no vision for the border," Garcia said.

Garcia said he would invite U.S. Rep.
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Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the border security conference organizer, to the upcoming event.

Peter Brock, spokesman for Reyes, said the congressman would consider it.

D. Irasema Coronado, professor of political science and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UTEP, is a members of the border task force. She said she liked the inclusive nature of the border policy conference.

"I think that they try to work vertically and horizontally reaching out to the border community and also to Washington, D.C., to grassroots organizations and to policy makers," she said.

Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com; 546-6131.


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The "conference" website:

“Building a New Vision of the Borderâ€

Well i'm sure this will be a load of crap!!!


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