{"id":67979,"date":"2019-04-22T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=67979"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:08:51","slug":"akron-press-club-immigration-panel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2019\/04\/22\/akron-press-club-immigration-panel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Akron Press Club &#8211; Immigration Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-akron-press-club\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gQ7E68CHdC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.akronpressclub.org\/201903\/akron-press-club-immigration-panel-april-24\">Akron Press Club immigration panel April 24<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.akronpressclub.org\/201903\/akron-press-club-immigration-panel-april-24\/embed#?secret=gQ7E68CHdC\" data-secret=\"gQ7E68CHdC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Akron Press Club immigration panel April 24&#8221; &#8212; Akron Press Club\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> <br>Immigration and Northeast Ohio will be the topic of an Akron Press Club  panel discussion on Wednesday, April 24, at The Tangier. There will be  the opportunity for questions from the audience.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akronpressclub.org\/\"><br>http:\/\/www.akronpressclub.org\/<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Immigration and Northeast Ohio will be the topic of an Akron Press Club  panel discussion on Wednesday, April 24, at The Tangier. There will be  the opportunity for questions from the audience.<br> The broad national  debate about the impact of immigration \u2013 legal and undocumented \u2013 plays  out in Northeast Ohio as well. Akron and Summit County have adopted a  \u201cwelcoming community\u201d plan for refugees and immigrants, and much of the  limited population growth here has been spurred by the legal migration.  Yet Ohio has four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities  detaining people in raids across the country. <br> The Akron Press Club panel will take a closer look at the issues and impact.<br><br>The panel members are:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Madhu Sharma, executive director of the International Institute of  Akron.<\/li><li>Elizabeth Knowles, director of the University of Akron School of Law\u2019s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.<\/li><li>Utomhin Okoh, a community  relations officer with the Akron Police Department.<\/li><li>Damber Subba, the first Bhutanese refugee to be sworn into the Akron Police Department.<\/li><li>The panel will be moderated by Akron Press Club board member M.L. Schultze.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us for a deeper exploration of the issues facing immigrants and the communities they\u2019re part of. <br><br>Program: Immigration panel.<br>Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019.<br>Time: Buffet luncheon starting at 11:30 a.m. Program begins at noon.<br>Place: The Tangier, 532 W. Market Street, Akron<br>Cost: $20 for Akron Press Club Members; $25 Non-Members.<br>Reservations  requested: Click here for easy online reservations. Or contact Lianne  Fowler, Press Club administrator, at 330-552-8860 or  akronpressclub@gmail.com. Cash or check only accepted day of luncheon.<br>Reservation deadline: Noon, Monday, April 22.<br>Cancellations:  Cancellation requests must be received no later than 48 hours before  the event. After that time, there will be no refunds and an invoice will  be issued for payment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration and Northeast Ohio will be the topic of an Akron Press Club panel discussion on Wednesday, April 24, at The Tangier. There will be the opportunity for questions from the audience. The broad national debate about the impact of immigration \u2013 legal and undocumented \u2013 plays out in Northeast Ohio as well. Akron and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2019\/04\/22\/akron-press-club-immigration-panel-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akron Press Club &#8211; Immigration Panel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67979\/revisions\/67983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}