Marquette Immigration Law Association Immigration policy should be

Marquette Immigration Law Association

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

Table of Contents MILA’s Objective. . . . . Slide 4 Admin Matters: Point of Contact, Fees, Joining the Executive Board. . . Slide 5 List of Events, Fall 2015. . . . Slides 7 -8 Immigration Law Related Courses. . . . Slide 10 Resources. . . . Slide 11 Several Unique Immigration-Related News Stories Over the 2015 Summer. . . Slide 13 I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

MILA’s Objective The Marquette Immigration Law Association’s objective and mission is to provide encouragement and opportunities for law students to explore and learn about immigration law and its policy concerns, generally; by way of events that bring together law students, immigration lawyers and other legal professionals in the area of immigration law, and Milwaukee’s immigrant and refugee community. And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the [Natives] of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

Admin Matters Point of Contact: David Del Busto, president. david. delbusto@marquette. edu. General Members’ Fees: $5. 00 per semester. Executive Board Members’ Fees: $10. 00 per semester. Faculty Advisor: Professor Fallone. Joining MILA’s Executive Board: There are still several positions open. Interested 2 and 3 Ls please email one short paragraph just indicating your interest for wanting to be a part of MILA. 1 Ls interested in being 1 L reps for the Spring semester please do the same. These States are the amplest poem; here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations.

As an immigrant, I am trying to redefine the space for myself, while also dealing with the situation that my mother tongue loses its function in everyday life.

List of Events Welcome Bash Grill and Social Mixer Friday, September 18 at Catholic Charities, 5: 00 -7: 30 pm. Address: 731 Washington St. , Milwaukee. Q+A Session with Immigration Attorney Elizabeth Murrar Tuesday, October TBD at Murrar Law Office, LLC, 5: 00 -6: 15 pm. Address: 610 W Lincoln Ave. , Ste. 2 B, Milwaukee. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, wh Is the imprisoned lightning, and h Mother of Exiles. From her beacon Glows world-wide welcome.

List of Events, cont. MILA Bar Get-Togethers Monday, September 28 at Hubbard Park Lodge Biergarten, 5: 00 pm - ? Monday special of half-off draft beers when you bring your own glass. Address: Friday, October 16 at TBD bar, 5: 00 pm - ? Malta 3565 North Morris Boulevard, Milwaukee. Floats Fundraiser Date TBD Other ideas for events still being planned for; other law societies welcome to collaborate on other events. They have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of Patriotic and liberty-loving [people] together,

It becomes a memory, it becomes a kind of ambiguity between sadness and injury and open to other kinds of perceptions.

Immigration Law Related Courses Offered at MULS Immigration Law Seminar Asylum Law Workshop Advanced Legal Research – International Law Professor Scoville Catholic Charities Internship Hammership Marquette Volunteer Legal Clinic 700 pm Professor Fallone Professor Owusu-Sanders Professor O’Brien United Way Center, Wednesdays, 5: 00 -

Resources https: //law. marquette. edu/law-library/us-immigration-law-research-guide “A Nation of Immigrants” by John F. Kennedy. Located at the third floor of the law library, call number JV 6453. K 4 1986. http: //www. vox. com/2015/1/12/7474897/immigration-america-maps 37 charts and maps compiled together portraying a brief history and interesting facts about immigrants of the U. S. https: //faculty. washington. edu/gregoryj/dust%20 bowl%20 migration. htm U. S. Immigration Law Research Guide. You can arrive at the above link starting at the Marquette Law homepage Law Library Reference and Research Services on the left-hand side Research Guides in drop-down menu U. S. Immigration Law Research Guide near the bottom of the list. A short description of the “Dust Bowl Migration. ” http: //www. aila. org/ American Immigration Lawyers Association The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,

I feel at home in my [adopted country] but, at the same time, not. I feel at home in my [native country], and then not. What I'm doing with my art is just cultivating this space in between.

Several Unique Immigration-Related News Over the 2015 Summer http: //www. dailymail. co. uk/news/article-3128709/Now-coming-bike-Syrian-Iraqimigrants-cycle-Macedonia-arriving-Greece-head-wealthy-northern-countries. html http: //www. theguardian. com/global-development/2015/jul/20/thai-fishing-industryimplicated-enslavement-deaths-rohingya https: //www. washingtonpost. com/world/she-was-a-quiet-commercial-lawyer-then-chinaturned-against-her/2015/07/18/fe 45876 c-2 b 3 d-11 e 5 -960 f-22 c 4 ba 982 ed 4_story. html http: //www. vox. com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-broken http: //www. usatoday. com/story/news/nation/2015/07/11/sanctuary-cities-not-changingsan-francisco-shooting/29979357/ The Irish were the first to endure the scorn and discrimination later to be inflicted, to some degree at least, on each successive wave of immigrants by already settled “Americans. ” Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico. [T]hey often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers. The

Freedom of emigration is due to the general interests of humanity. The course of emigration being always, from places where living is more difficult, to places where it is less difficult, the happiness of the emigrant is promoted by the change and as a more numerous progeny is another effect of the same cause, human life is at once made a greater blessing, and more individuals are created to partake of it.

Notes Slide 1: A New Life, Immigrant Family Park, Cudahy, WI Slide 2: A Nation of Immigrants, John F. Kennedy This Land is Your Land, Iván Navarro Slide 3: Letter to Reverend Francis Adrian Vanderkemp, May 28, 1788, George Washington Slide 4: First Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson Slide 5: Leaves of Grass – By Blue Ontario’s Shore, Walt Whitman Slide 6: The Written Room, Women’s Museum, Bonn, Germany, 2001; Parastou Forouhar Thoughts on her work, Parastou Forouhar Slide 7: The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus Slide 8: Speech at Chicago Illinois, July 10, 1858, Abraham Lincoln This Land is Your Land, Iván Navarro Slide 9: The Written Room, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrüecken, Germany, 2011; Parastou Forouhar Thoughts on her work, Parastou Forouhar Slide 10: Immigrant Mother, Cathedral Square Park, Milwaukee, WI Slide 11: Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), Woody Guthrie Slide 12: The Written Room, Women’s Museum, Bonn, Germany, 2003; Parastou Forouhar Thoughts on her work, Parastou Forouhar Slide 13: A Nation of Immigrants, John F. Kennedy Slide 14: Essay on Population and Emigration, printed in the National Gazette, Nov. 1791, James Madison A New Life, Immigrant Family Park, Cudahy, WI