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The Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement “seeks to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants,” as Washington’s Cardinal Robert McElroy recently lamented. “It is willing to tear families apart, separating grieving mothers from their children, and fathers from the sons and daughters who are the center of their lives.”
Past Initiative dialogues have focused on the moral dimensions of deportation and other immigration policies, as well as the Catholic Church’s teaching around human dignity and solidarity. This Latino Leader Gathering will focus on the way deportations have affected the lives of families and their communities. Schools, businesses, and churches lose essential members; children grow up without their parents or siblings; and people live with a fear of walking to the store, visiting their friends and relatives, going to work, and engaging in normal social life.
This conversation will focus on the effects of fear-inducing immigration enforcement tactics, the separation of families, and racial prejudice resulting from the violent rhetoric and policing that have accompanied the immigration policies of the last year. It will explore the impacts these dynamics are having now in Latino communities across the nation, as well as the lasting damage they will continue to do in the future.
This gathering will have three parts:
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Welcoming Happy Hour
Meet and network with other young Latino leaders over food and drink
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Dialogue
A dialogue and conversation on “‘Making Life Unbearable’” with four leaders
8:00 - 9:00 p.m. | Reception
Continue the conversation over food and drink.
Participants:
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