League of Women Voters® of Virginia

League of Women Voters®
of Montgomery County, VA

The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, VA Presents:

The Challenge of Immigration

Panel Members

Attorney Christine L. Poarch, who practices immigration law, has worked with the immigrant population in Texas and Virginia. She has helped seasonal businesses and farms legally petition to hire foreign workers, prepared successful applications for permanent residency and citizenship, and represented underserved populations such as battered immigrant women and unaccompanied minors. She is also a columnist for Notihispano, a Spanish language newspaper.

Asst. Professor Kris A. Tilley-Lubbsilley-Lubbs, assistant professor, Virginia Tech School of Education who specializes in Second Language, has done research on women immigrant workers in Virginia, and their families in Mexico, and on the education of immigrant children.

Dr. Robert C. Solomon, a specialist in internal medicine who is the New River Valley Civil Surgeon for the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service, has been a civil surgeon for 15 years, and has seen many of the immigrants to the New River Valley in the course of his practice.

Moderator Amy Maulden League First Vice President

PART I     PART II     PART III     PART IV     PART V

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