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Colorado State University – Pueblo offers three-part immigration series this
fall
Varying perspectives of immigration, including population trends in Colorado
and the impact those numbers will have on state and local politics, will be
presented this fall during a three-part immigration series sponsored by the
League of Women Voters, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the
Political Science Program at Colorado State University – Pueblo. All events will
be held at CSU-Pueblo and are open to the public at no charge.
The series will begin at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 14 with a discussion of
immigration issues that are impacting state and local politics by Colorado House
Speaker Andrew Romanoff in Psychology 205A. A reception will precede the
presentation at 2:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, Oct. 19, local immigration issues will be addressed by a panel
of individuals who work with the immigrant population on a daily basis. The
panel discussion will begin at 7 p.m. in the Occhiato University Center
Hearthwell Lounge. Panelists will include Jayne Mazur, Director of Catholic
Charities; Elizabeth Velez, Clinical Case Worker-Catholic Charities; Sister
Nancy Crafton, Los Pobres; Amber Tafoya, Attorney and Director of the Southern
Colorado Coalition of Immigration Resources; and Adriana Fernandez Ruffer, an
immigrant from Argentina, who also is an attorney and works with immigrants at
Catholic Charities.
The final event in the series will be a look at the composition of the
state’s population by Colorado State Demographer Elizabeth Garner from the
Department of Local Affairs in Denver. In November, Garner will discuss
immigrant population trends in Colorado, including the latest data on the
numbers of immigrants in Colorado and the impact of these immigration trends on
specific communities. An announcement of this date will be forthcoming.
For further information on the immigration series, contact Gayle Berardi, CSU-Pueblo’s
Political Science Program, at 549-2679 or at
gayle.berardi@colostate-pueblo.edu.
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