FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
Contact: Christina DiPasquale, Center for American Progress, (202) 481-8181;
Sandhya Bathija, ACLU national, 202-675-2312 or (212) 549-2666;
Dotty Griffith, ACLU of Texas, 713-942-8146;
WASHINGTON — Cecillia Wang, Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, will join other immigration policy and legal experts on Wednesday to discuss what is expected from the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, SB 1070.
Oral arguments in
Arizona v. United States are scheduled for April 25. The case will focus on the issue of pre-emption, or whether states have the authority to make laws on federal immigration matters. The panel will explore the legal principles before the Court as well as the implications of the case given the nation’s changing demographics and the enhanced likelihood for racial profiling.
The case will also focus on the federal government’s challenge of the Arizona law. The ACLU and its coalition partners also have legal challenges in Arizona as well as every state that has passed an anti-immigrant law – Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.
For more information, go to:
www.aclu.org/anti-immigrant-arizona-copycat-laws
WHAT: Press call with immigration policy and legal experts to discuss
Arizona v. United States
WHO :
Cecillia Wang , Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
Dr. Warren H. Stewart, Sr. , Senior Pastor of the First Institutional Baptist Church of Phoenix, Arizona
Grant Woods, Attorney General of Arizona from 1991-1999
Janet Murguía , President and CEO, National Council of La Raza
Wade Henderson , President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund
Angela Maria Kelley , Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
WHEN: Wed., April 18 from 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
CALL IN:
877.210.8943
#72457568
RSVP: To RSVP, please contact Christina DiPasquale at 202.481.8181 or
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