Join Judy Manton* for a presentation focusing on the complex issues of immigration based on her interactions with the Latin American community throughout her career.  Judy will discuss how people are affected by emigration and immigration and the experiences of guest workers, asylum seekers, refugees, and detainees.  She will report on how the situation at the US/Mexican border has changed since 2015 and will also discuss orderly legal migration and successful asylum seekers and their resettlement. 

*Judy Manton, has taught “Cross-Cultural Perspectives” at Fairleigh Dickenson University for 28 years.  She has taught English as a Second Language to adult immigrants both in New York City and at Bergen Community College. Judy directed a migrant worker program in Iowa. Currently, she is the director of a summer training program for Teachers of English in various parts of China.  She is an active member of the UU Congregation of the Palisades

“The ‘Push’ Factors behind Emigration: Honduras

 Last November Judy joined a delegation to Honduras sponsored by The Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice and hosted by Foro para La Vida, an umbrella group of 17 organizations of activist women, who have witnessed narco-trafficking, rape by police and the military, and land seizure by big business. Their struggle in speaking truth to power against their illegal government will be another main focus of the presentation.

 CO SPONSORED:  Northern New Jersey Sanctuary Coalition, Northern NJ NOW and USR Council