The National Immigration Law Center has scheduled a national conference call for Thursday, November 3 at 9:30 PDT/12:30 EDT. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the reconstruction efforts, have had a profound impact on immigrants, both inside and outside of the Gulf region. The need to develop a coordinated national agenda to address a range of short and long term issues has become increasingly clear. Issues to be discussed on the call include:

The exploitation of immigrant workers

Barriers to disaster relief services and benefits

Immigration enforcement targeted at disaster relief settings

Race and Ethnic tensions between native-born and immigrant workers in the Gulf

The NILC will send out a detailed agenda and call-in instructions early next week. Please register for the call or offer suggestions regarding the call by sending an email to Monica Guizar at: guizar@nilc.org.

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