Event Title: Immigration: A Comprehensive Conversation from Four Viewpoints

When:  Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Where:  Gainey Ranch Golf Club, Scottsdale
Time:  Cocktails 6:00 p.m. - Dinner 7:00 p.m. - Program 8:00 p.m.

Panel moderated by Susan Assadi, PCFR Program Co-Chair

Thank you to this meeting's sponsor: Tancer Law Firm, PLC. Tancer Law Firm, PLC limits its practice to employment, non-immigrant and immigrant visas, family unification, VAWA, and naturalization services. In association with David Asser, legal services for detention, deportation proceedings, and immigration-related immigration are also provided.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
     
     The topic of Immigration is a complex tattered tapestry of competing elements--personal experiences, legal issues, government involvement, border enforcement, and behind it all, the social underpinnings causing migration.  How to bring as much information to our members as possible was our dilemma.  In the scant allotted time, what would be the best approach for PCFR?  Our solution was to present a Panel of experts, each of whom has been asked to share his/her experiences and perspective on the topic.  Four independent viewpoints…not always in harmony with one another…will be expressed.  Our panelists will also be asked to offer possible solutions.
     But the real heart of the meeting will be the questions from our members to the panelists.  Q & A at this meeting will be in an unusual format for PCFR, and will involve the use of 3x5 cards, which will be placed at every table.  Members and guests may write their questions on the cards which will be collected and then managed by the panel moderator, our Program Co-Chair, Susan Assadi. 
     We urge you to join us for this unusual meeting, and we hope you will  include those guests you believe would find the evening worthwhile.  

Meet the Panelists:
• Professor Dirk Hoerder, PhD: Department of History, ASU.  Dirk’s top areas of interest are labor migration in the Atlantic economies, North America as a migration region, worldwide migration systems, and the sociology of migrant acculturation…process of adoption to new social patterns.
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• Shoshana Tancer, Immigration Attorney, Tancer Law; Professor Emeritus at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Shoshana is active in the American Immigration Lawyers Association and a member of the PCFR Board of Directors.
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• Neville Cramer. Neville is an expert in a variety of issues relating to immigration law enforcement.
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• Luz Sarmina, President and CEO Valle del Sol. Luz is president and CEO of Valle del Sol, a nonprofit organization providing a variety of behavioral health, social services and Latino leadership development programs to the community.
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