9500 Liberty At Theater N
Looking for something interesting to do on Friday night? Check this out. (Co-hosted by Delaware Tomorrow’s Michael Stafford)
A key part of the national conversation over immigration reform and Arizona’s S.B. 1070 is coming to Delaware this weekend.
I am honored to be co-hosting a screening of the documentary film 9500 Liberty at Wilmington’s Theater N on the evening of Friday, July 2d at 8 pm. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on immigration reform featuring Maria Velasquez from Voices Without Borders, Eliud Gautier, New Jersey Coordinator of Esperanza for America, and I. We’ll also be joined by two of the film’s producers, Annabel Park, an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Coffee Party USA, and University of Delaware alumnus Jeff Man!
The film tells the story of a 2008 local enforcement ordinance passed in Prince William County, Virginia, that required police to check the immigration status of those they had “probable cause” to suspect were undocumented immigrants. ”Despite a climate of fear and racial tension, ordinary citizens banded together to ask lawmakers to repeal the controversial ‘probable cause’ mandate. They succeeded with an inventive combination of Internet and grassroots advocacy, pointing to the law’s unexpectedly negative economic impact, and the costly law suits that would burden taxpayers.”
I’m sorry I’m not in town to see this.
Tags: Immigration
I wonder if it will include the drug cartels that are controling parts of AZ? Maybe they will talk about the 9 million illegal immigrants that hold full time jobs when there are over 15 million citizens out of work.
Why don’t you attend and find out? You can ask questions afterward, too. Shockingly, I’m not being a jackass.
If I wasn’t going away, I probably would. I just watched the trailer, and I love the sign showed in the begining. This quote is one that I love, “We do the jobs that nobody else wants to do.” I know a lot of people in the building trades who are out of work that would beg to differ.
Another one I like is the, “We pay taxes.” Even if an illegal obtained a SSN, they are probably making minimum wage, or close to that. Therefore they would fall under the new fed guideline, and fed income tax wouldn’t be taken out due to their low income. Besides, since they can’t own houses, if one child goes to school, or one of them gets sick once, there goes any meager amount they might have paid.
To be honest though, they might actually have a point about doing the jobs that no one else wants to do if they added one more phrase. For the pay. Minimum wage is great if you are living with 3 other families to spread costs.