Southeast Symposium on State Immigration Laws: The View from the States

Caroline Fredrickson

President, American Constitution Society
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Angela Maria Kelley

Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
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Representative Stacey Y. Abrams

House Minority Leader, Georgia General Assembly
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Charles H. Kuck

Managing Partner, Kuck Immigration Partners LLC
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Tammy Besherse

Staff Attorney, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
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Kristi Graunke

Senior Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center
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Marielena Hincapié

Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
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Discussion

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At ACS's Southeast Symposium on State Immigration Laws, national and regional advocates connected legal developments to local action. The panel included:

Moderator, Angela Maria Kelley Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy, Center for American Progress
Representative Stacey Y. Abrams, House Minority Leader, Georgia General Assembly
Tammy Besherse, Staff Attorney, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Kristi Graunke, Senior Staff Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center
Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
Charles H. Kuck, Managing Partner, Kuck Immigration Partners LLC

Judge U.W. Clemon, the former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, served as a featured speaker. Click here for video of the speaker.

Tony West, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice gave the keynote address. Click here for video of the speaker.

At the day's first panel, national experts discussed the legal landscape with regard to the constitutionality of state immigration laws and upcoming Supreme Court review of Arizona SB 1070. Click here for video of the panel. The panel included:

Moderator, Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
Gabriel "Jack" Chin, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara Law
Jonathan R. Siegel, Kahan Family Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Cecillia Wang, Director of the Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union