WTIA is working with Immigration Works USA to promote this Aug. 12 event in Seattle dealing with immigration. Sen. Patty Murray is one of the several high level speakers who will be at this event.
Immigration reform is an oft-discussed but little acted on federal issue that generates a great deal of emotion but no useful policy changes. The issues of legal and illegal immigration get hopelessly tangled and a number of industries are negatively impacted by the lack of comprehensive immigration reform.
Please register and attend this August 12 event at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. Below is the specific information from Immigration Works USA. The agenda is attached.
WHY REFORM CAN'T WAIT!
Join the business grassroots campaign for an immigration overhaul
WHAT A one-day conference and strategic planning session for employers who rely on immigrant workers and grasp the urgent need for immigration reform. It’s looking less and less likely that Congress will take up immigration before the November midterm elections. But failure in 2010 only increases pressure for action in early 2011, and employers of immigrant workers need to be making their voices heard.
WHEN Thursday, August 12, 2010
WHERE Sheraton Seattle, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle
FEATURED SPEAKERS Washington Sen. Patty Murray, entrepreneur and scholar Vivek Wadhwa and veteran political commentator Morton Kondracke (VIP dinner).
WHO SHOULD ATTEND Employers from the Northwest and beyond who rely on immigrant workers – highly skilled, lesser skilled, seasonal and agricultural workers. Business leaders working to advance immigration reform. Employers and business representatives who want to join the fight.
REGIONAL AND NATIONAL The summit will bring together engaged employers from across the U.S. – business advocates from the Northwest and members of ImmigrationWorks coalitions from Georgia to California – to share ideas about how best to advance immigration reform in 2011.
COSPONSORS ImmigrationWorks USA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, working with local pro-immigration business coalitions – ImmigrationWorks Washington, the Coalition for a Working Oregon, the Idaho Coalition for Immigration Reform – plus the Association of Washington Business and the Washington state chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS Business advocates from across the country and a panel of employers who rely on immigrant workers – small business owners who know and can explain better than anyone how immigrant workers keep U.S. businesses running and contributing to a dynamic, competitive economy.
REGISTER HERE
www.immigrationworksusa.org/index.php?p=212
REGISTRATION FEE $35. VIP DINNER AND SUMMIT $300.
PRINTABLE FLYER AGENDA