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[Susie]

http://martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.View&ContentRecord_id=3752&CFID=20125102&CFTOKEN=12587762


SENATOR MARTINEZ TO PARTICIPATE IN UCF IMMIGRATION FORUM

October 6, 2006 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) is scheduled to participate in a University of Central Florida symposium regarding federal immigration policy on Monday, October 9, 2006.

What: U.S. Immigration Policy: Open Borders or Closed Doors?

Where: UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom.

When: Monday, October 9, 2006. Symposium begins at 9:30 a.m. Senator Martinez speaks at approximately 10:15am.

Background: This is an international symposium, co-sponsored with the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF, the Global Connections Foundation, the Orlando Sentinel and other partners.

[Susie]

http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=0024004105bd60439010c0c76ce2f005a9f&mode=news


SENATOR MARTINEZ TO PARTICIPATE IN UCF IMMIGRATION FORUM

October 6, 2006 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) is scheduled to participate in a University of Central Florida symposium regarding federal immigration policy on Monday, October 9, 2006.

What: U.S. Immigration Policy: Open Borders or Closed Doors?

Where: UCF Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom.

When: Monday, October 9, 2006. Symposium begins at 9:30 a.m. Senator Martinez speaks at approximately 10:15am.

Background: This is an international symposium, co-sponsored with the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF, the Global Connections Foundation, the Orlando Sentinel and other partners.

[Susie]

From the UCF website



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UCF Immigration Forum to Feature Senator Martinez, Mexican Undersecretary
Sept. 29, 2006

By Chad Binette

From tightening security on the U.S.-Mexican border to allowing illegal immigrants already in the United States to become guest workers, many issues surrounding immigration have divided political, business and religious leaders and local activists for years.

On Monday, Oct. 9, U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and a high-level Mexican official who oversees immigration issues will participate in a daylong symposium at the University of Central Florida that will explore those issues and pose questions about whether enough common ground can be found to develop effective solutions.

Martinez and Undersecretary Gerónimo Gutiérrez of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be joined by syndicated newspaper columnists Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel at the symposium hosted by the Lou Frey Institute for Politics and Government.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will be in the Pegasus Ballroom of the Student Union. The morning session will begin at 9:30 a.m., and the evening session featuring Thomas and Beckel will start at 7 p.m.

“U.S. Immigration Policy: Open Borders or Closed Doors?” will be held at a time when President Bush and the U.S. Congress are trying to resolve their differences on proposed immigration policies while communities such as Avon Park, Fla., debate whether to enact their own local ordinances about immigration.

“Immigration is an issue I dealt with when I was in Congress in the 1970s; it’s not new, but unfortunately there’s no consensus in the country or the Congress,” said Lou Frey, founder of the Lou Frey Institute and a Republican congressman who represented Central Florida from 1969 to 1979. “The intelligent, compassionate discussion of this issue by people with various backgrounds and viewpoints may help in finding a consensus.”

Martinez, who arrived in the United States as a Cuban refugee at age 15, will participate on a panel about the personal perspectives of immigration at 10:30 a.m. He will be joined by former U.S. Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, a Democrat from Lexington, Ky., whose father emigrated from Italy to the United States.

In 1986, Mazzoli sponsored the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, a key piece of immigration policy legislation that called for increased security along the Mexican border, a temporary worker program for agricultural workers and a legalization option for some undocumented immigrants.

Gutiérrez will give the symposium’s morning keynote address at 11:30 a.m. Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Catholic Diocese of Orlando will speak on a panel at 2:30 p.m. on the practical aspects of immigration policy. He will be joined by David Harris, a former intelligence official with the Canadian government.

The symposium will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a panel on congressional views of immigration featuring U.S. Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, and Ric Keller, R-Orlando. They will be joined by Chester Glover, an aide to U.S. Rep. Corinne Brown, D-Jacksonville.

The Lou Frey Institute for Politics and Government, which was founded in 2002, is a nonpartisan organization that promotes civic education for students and other Central Florida residents.

Students from several area schools will attend the symposium, and more than 1,000 students from schools around the state are expected to watch portions of the symposium on a live Internet broadcast.

In addition to the Lou Frey Institute, sponsors of the symposium include the UCF Global Perspectives Office; Fifth Third Bank; Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor and Reed; the Orlando Sentinel; and the Global Connections Foundation.

For more information and a full symposium schedule, go to www.loufrey.org .


Schedule of symposium speakers:

9:30 a.m. “Immigration Policy: Views from the Congress.” Panelists: U.S. Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, and Ric Keller, R-Orlando, and Chester Glover, an aide to U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville.

10:30 a.m. “A Personal Perspective: From Both Sides of the Aisle.” Panelists: U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and former U.S. Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli, D-Ky. (1971-1995).

11:30 a.m. “Daytime Keynote Address” by Gerónimo Gutiérrez, undersecretary for North America, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1:30 p.m. “Historical Perspectives on Immigration.” Panelists: Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke University’s Kenan Institute of Ethics, and Dennis Clare, an immigration attorney from Lexington, Ky.

2:30 p.m. “The Practical Aspects of Immigration Policy.” Panelists: Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Catholic Diocese of Orlando, and David Harris, a former Canadian intelligence official who now directs Insignis Strategic Research in Ottawa.

7 p.m. “Immigration Policy: Is There Any Common Ground?” Keynote addresses by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, syndicated columnists with USA Today.


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[floridapete]

Here's the report in todays Sentinel:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-immigration1006oct10,0,2052637.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Did anybody from here go ?

[Susie]

Hi Peter

Thanks for the link

I really wanted to go but could not as I have been quite poorly

Dizzy, really weak etc.,, feeling a bit better today


Please share if anyone managed to go

[Susie]

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UCF forum stirs protest, passion

Policymakers, experts and students talk about immigration reform and borders.

VICtor Manuel Ramos | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted October 10, 2006


PHOTOS

Protest (GEORGE SKENE, ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Oct 9, 2006

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Hundreds of Central Florida residents, many of them college students, weighed in Monday during a daylong session at the University of Central Florida on one of the most divisive political questions of the day:

Should the U.S. open its borders or shut its doors to many immigrants?

The answers reflected the same differences over enforcement and legalization that are behind a stalemate in Congress.

When U.S. Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, and Ric Keller, R-Orlando, prepared to make the case for a fenced border and stricter enforcement, activists from Students for a Democratic Society carried worn-out gloves from farmworkers to the stage -- making a symbolic statement about the contributions of those immigrants.

"These are the people who are the backbone of our country," said Pat DeCarlo, 21, a UCF student who is an activist with the group. "We wanted to use our right to freedom of speech to say that we don't want them exploited and forgotten."

Most of the policymakers, academics and experts at the forum fell somewhere in between those two options. The symposium, attended by more than 400 people, was held at the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF.

The gathering followed the recent approval of thousands of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, the country that contributes most immigrants to the United States.

That set the stage for the most highly attended session of the day, where Mexico Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Gutierrez fielded questions about his country's efforts toward self-reliance and the effect of trade agreements in pushing people out of his country.

Gutierrez emphasized that Mexico is not proud of losing many of its nationals and said that it does not encourage people to come to the United States. But he also stated that global economic forces create the flow of migrants, while many willing workers have no legal mechanism to enter the U.S.

"Mexicans are not born with a genetic chip implanted that tells them 'Let's migrate to the United States,' " said Gutierrez, explaining that a struggle for survival drives whole families to cross the dangerous Sonoran Desert at the risk of losing their lives. "If there is a legal avenue, they will use it. And the question is, are there enough legal avenues?"

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, who co-authored an amended Senate bill that sought to legalize some immigrant workers and their families, said he is hopeful that when Congress reconvenes after the election it will make new efforts to bridge the differences between the two chambers.

"We are dealing with a broken system," Martinez said. "The best way to do this is to establish a legal guest-worker system, and we set the ground rules."

Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke University's Kenan Institute of Ethics in Durham, N.C., told the afternoon crowd that the debate underscores deeper issues about how to balance the rule of law with human rights in an increasingly global economy.

"It's a story that goes beyond legal and illegal," Pickus said. "We increasingly live in a global network, in a global neighborhood.

"Immigration has become the human face to this phenomenon of transience, " he said.

Another local speaker, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, said immigrants contribute with work and capital, and also help to create a pluralistic society.

"The immigrants, legal and illegal, can be a powerful force for the renewal of American culture, because they believe in the American dream," Wenski said. "They can serve as an antidote to the self-absorbed it's-all-about-me culture that has invaded many."

Frey, whose annual symposium tackles current political issues, said the gathering did not aim to find a quick-fix solution but to expose students and others in the community to "really tough issues that the country has to face."

Winrich Cruz, a UCF political-science student who is an American of Filipino ancestry, told panelists that he would like to see the debate shift to finding a global solution for all who want to become part of U.S. society.

"I just want people to be able to wait in line," said Cruz, 21, "like my parents did."

Victor Manuel Ramos can be reached at vramos@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6186.

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UCF forum stirs protest, passion

Policymakers, experts and students talk about immigration reform and borders.

VICtor Manuel Ramos | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted October 10, 2006


PHOTOS

Protest (GEORGE SKENE, ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Oct 9, 2006

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Hundreds of Central Florida residents, many of them college students, weighed in Monday during a daylong session at the University of Central Florida on one of the most divisive political questions of the day:

Should the U.S. open its borders or shut its doors to many immigrants?

The answers reflected the same differences over enforcement and legalization that are behind a stalemate in Congress.

When U.S. Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, and Ric Keller, R-Orlando, prepared to make the case for a fenced border and stricter enforcement, activists from Students for a Democratic Society carried worn-out gloves from farmworkers to the stage -- making a symbolic statement about the contributions of those immigrants.

"These are the people who are the backbone of our country," said Pat DeCarlo, 21, a UCF student who is an activist with the group. "We wanted to use our right to freedom of speech to say that we don't want them exploited and forgotten."

Most of the policymakers, academics and experts at the forum fell somewhere in between those two options. The symposium, attended by more than 400 people, was held at the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF.

The gathering followed the recent approval of thousands of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, the country that contributes most immigrants to the United States.

That set the stage for the most highly attended session of the day, where Mexico Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Gutierrez fielded questions about his country's efforts toward self-reliance and the effect of trade agreements in pushing people out of his country.

Gutierrez emphasized that Mexico is not proud of losing many of its nationals and said that it does not encourage people to come to the United States. But he also stated that global economic forces create the flow of migrants, while many willing workers have no legal mechanism to enter the U.S.

"Mexicans are not born with a genetic chip implanted that tells them 'Let's migrate to the United States,' " said Gutierrez, explaining that a struggle for survival drives whole families to cross the dangerous Sonoran Desert at the risk of losing their lives. "If there is a legal avenue, they will use it. And the question is, are there enough legal avenues?"

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, who co-authored an amended Senate bill that sought to legalize some immigrant workers and their families, said he is hopeful that when Congress reconvenes after the election it will make new efforts to bridge the differences between the two chambers.

"We are dealing with a broken system," Martinez said. "The best way to do this is to establish a legal guest-worker system, and we set the ground rules."

Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke University's Kenan Institute of Ethics in Durham, N.C., told the afternoon crowd that the debate underscores deeper issues about how to balance the rule of law with human rights in an increasingly global economy.

"It's a story that goes beyond legal and illegal," Pickus said. "We increasingly live in a global network, in a global neighborhood.

"Immigration has become the human face to this phenomenon of transience, " he said.

Another local speaker, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, said immigrants contribute with work and capital, and also help to create a pluralistic society.

"The immigrants, legal and illegal, can be a powerful force for the renewal of American culture, because they believe in the American dream," Wenski said. "They can serve as an antidote to the self-absorbed it's-all-about-me culture that has invaded many."

Frey, whose annual symposium tackles current political issues, said the gathering did not aim to find a quick-fix solution but to expose students and others in the community to "really tough issues that the country has to face."

Winrich Cruz, a UCF political-science student who is an American of Filipino ancestry, told panelists that he would like to see the debate shift to finding a global solution for all who want to become part of U.S. society.

"I just want people to be able to wait in line," said Cruz, 21, "like my parents did."

Victor Manuel Ramos can be reached at vramos@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6186.

[Susie]

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UCF forum stirs protest, passion

Policymakers, experts and students talk about immigration reform and borders.

VICtor Manuel Ramos | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted October 10, 2006


PHOTOS

Protest (GEORGE SKENE, ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Oct 9, 2006

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Hundreds of Central Florida residents, many of them college students, weighed in Monday during a daylong session at the University of Central Florida on one of the most divisive political questions of the day:

Should the U.S. open its borders or shut its doors to many immigrants?

The answers reflected the same differences over enforcement and legalization that are behind a stalemate in Congress.

When U.S. Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, and Ric Keller, R-Orlando, prepared to make the case for a fenced border and stricter enforcement, activists from Students for a Democratic Society carried worn-out gloves from farmworkers to the stage -- making a symbolic statement about the contributions of those immigrants.

"These are the people who are the backbone of our country," said Pat DeCarlo, 21, a UCF student who is an activist with the group. "We wanted to use our right to freedom of speech to say that we don't want them exploited and forgotten."

Most of the policymakers, academics and experts at the forum fell somewhere in between those two options. The symposium, attended by more than 400 people, was held at the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at UCF.

The gathering followed the recent approval of thousands of miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, the country that contributes most immigrants to the United States.

That set the stage for the most highly attended session of the day, where Mexico Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Gutierrez fielded questions about his country's efforts toward self-reliance and the effect of trade agreements in pushing people out of his country.

Gutierrez emphasized that Mexico is not proud of losing many of its nationals and said that it does not encourage people to come to the United States. But he also stated that global economic forces create the flow of migrants, while many willing workers have no legal mechanism to enter the U.S.

"Mexicans are not born with a genetic chip implanted that tells them 'Let's migrate to the United States,' " said Gutierrez, explaining that a struggle for survival drives whole families to cross the dangerous Sonoran Desert at the risk of losing their lives. "If there is a legal avenue, they will use it. And the question is, are there enough legal avenues?"

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, who co-authored an amended Senate bill that sought to legalize some immigrant workers and their families, said he is hopeful that when Congress reconvenes after the election it will make new efforts to bridge the differences between the two chambers.

"We are dealing with a broken system," Martinez said. "The best way to do this is to establish a legal guest-worker system, and we set the ground rules."

Noah Pickus, associate director of Duke University's Kenan Institute of Ethics in Durham, N.C., told the afternoon crowd that the debate underscores deeper issues about how to balance the rule of law with human rights in an increasingly global economy.

"It's a story that goes beyond legal and illegal," Pickus said. "We increasingly live in a global network, in a global neighborhood.

"Immigration has become the human face to this phenomenon of transience, " he said.

Another local speaker, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, said immigrants contribute with work and capital, and also help to create a pluralistic society.

"The immigrants, legal and illegal, can be a powerful force for the renewal of American culture, because they believe in the American dream," Wenski said. "They can serve as an antidote to the self-absorbed it's-all-about-me culture that has invaded many."

Frey, whose annual symposium tackles current political issues, said the gathering did not aim to find a quick-fix solution but to expose students and others in the community to "really tough issues that the country has to face."

Winrich Cruz, a UCF political-science student who is an American of Filipino ancestry, told panelists that he would like to see the debate shift to finding a global solution for all who want to become part of U.S. society.

"I just want people to be able to wait in line," said Cruz, 21, "like my parents did."

Victor Manuel Ramos can be reached at vramos@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6186.

[Susie]

Here's the report in todays Sentinel:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-immigration1006oct10,0,2052637.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Did anybody from here go ?


Hi Peter

I have just had a verg long and interesting conversation with the reporter !

He will be checking out items we discussed , talk to Kelly Griffiths and get back to me.

Apparently he often writes about immigration and wants to keep intouch and report our progress,

All of which is good news for us and site