IIT Chicago-Kent to Host "A Debate on the Pathway for Legalization for the Undocumented"

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law will present "A Debate on the Pathway for Legalization for the Undocumented" on April 14 at noon in the law school's Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium, 565 West Adams Street (between Clinton and Jefferson streets) in Chicago. The program is free and open to the public.

A panel of experts will discuss a wide range of political, social, economic and legal issues related to creating a so-called pathway for undocumented immigrants. Among the questions to be considered are: What are the economic consequences that may be caused by creating a pathway for undocumented workers to become citizens? What effect would legalization of undocumented workers have on unemployed, unskilled workers? Does this approach promote the breaking of existing immigration laws?

Panelists include Daniel Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR); Dave Gorak, executive director of the Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration; Professor Linus Chan of the University of Minnesota Law School's Detainee Rights Clinic; and University of Illinois at Chicago political science professor Alexandra Filindra.

This program is co-sponsored by the IIT Chicago-Kent chapters of the American Constitution Society, Criminal Law Society, Federalist Society, Immigration Law Society and Republican National Lawyers Association and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Latino Law Students Association. For more information, please contact Dana Pownall of the American Constitution Society at dpownall@kentlaw.iit.edu.

Founded in 1888, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law.