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Keeping It Local: Support for our Local Immigration Community, January 25 [on Zoom]

1/25/2023

Join League members on Wednesday, January 25, from 7:00-8:00 pm to learn more about the New American Welcome Center at the University YMCA. NAWC director Gloria Yen will explain how the Center helps immigrants integrate into the various communities in Champaign County. She'll respond to questions such as the ones below. You'll also have the chance to ask questions of your own.

Do we know demographics about the immigrant community in Champaign County - number, ages, country of origin, etc.
What is the difference between refugee status and immigrant status? Are refugees needier? Do they take longer to assimilate?
What is the short-term cost to helping immigrants and refugees and who funds that cost?
What is the long-term economic benefit to the community of helping immigrants and refugees? How many years does it take to realize that benefit?
Is there a significant difference in the cost/benefit relationship to helping immigrants vs. helping refugees?
How are local school districts and social services impacted by our immigration and refugee population?
What are our expectations about immigrants and refugees learning English?
Are there tensions between new arrivals to America and those already living here, regarding economic or social resources?
Do immigrant communities exist in our area to help assimilate new arrivals?

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Our Guest Speaker:
Gloria Yen holds a Master's in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Music in Musicology from the University of Illinois. As a US DOJ Partially Accredited Representative, she provides immigration legal representation for low-income and indigent persons in Champaign County. She also serves on the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission’s Community Action Board.

The Keeping It Local series will be held on Zoom. Consider joining from wherever you are and feel free to share this invitation with others.
Email League member Joan Tousey for more information.

LWVCC Book Club, January 19

1/19/2023

Join Jane Santogrossi and other LWVCC members via Zoom on Thursday, January 19 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm to discuss The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.

Mr. Rothstein debunks the assumption that American cities are racially divided because all parties prefer it that way, or because of class differences.

Instead, he documents that it was due to laws and policies passed by local, state, and federal governments over many decades. Beginning with the Great Migration in the 1920s, such policies created the impoverished neighborhoods that still exist today.

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has written extensively on race and education.

Contact Annette Lansford for more Book Club information.

Book Club Zoom Link

LWVCC Joins Local Organizations in the MLK Walk for Peace January 16 2023

1/16/2023

Adapted from the February 2023 LWVCC newsletter The Voter. Thanks to LWVCC Director Kanittha Fay for photos.

Martin Luther King Day, Walk for Peace

1/16/2023

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Keeping It Local: Support for our Local Immigration Community, January 25 [on Zoom]

LWVCC Book Club, January 19

LWVCC Joins Local Organizations in the MLK Walk for Peace January 16 2023

Martin Luther King Day, Walk for Peace

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