"We the People" Today and Tomorrow
The ongoing crisis at the US-Mexico border has often fueled ugly arguments about US immigration policy. The arguments are not new, nor are their basic questions. The US has long touted itself as a land of immigrants but has repeatedly closed doors belied its boast. Its policies and practices have hardly been consistently welcoming.
Join us Monday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m. for Thomas.J. Davis', Ph.D., presentation about US immigration and naturalization data and policy. It invites reflection on the bases of US immigration policy and how such bases and policy reflect what it means to be an American and how immigrants fit into the American dream.
Almost every generation of US citizens has needed to answer questions about immigration and the American dream, about who should be allowed to become their fellow citizens, about what that process should be, and about what the policy and process mean for people, communities, and the nation itself.
Thomas J. Davis, Ph.D., is an historian, lawyer, and professor emeritus at Arizona State University, Tempe, where he taught U.S. constitutional and legal history. He taught also as a visiting professor of law at the ASU College of Law. He received his PhD in U.S. history from Columbia University and his JD cum laude from the University at Buffalo School of Law.
This is a “no miss” presentation that will leave you thinking of our immigration challenges…past, present and future.
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. in the lobby of the Renaissance Theater and are $5 at the door. No registration is required.
The theater is equipped with a hearing loop system which is a special type of sound system for people who use hearing aids. The loop system provides a magnetic wireless signal that is picked up by a hearing aid when it is set to the T-setting (telecoil). Many hearing aids are equipped with telecoil technology.
