Baltimore Immigration Summit

I was on a panel for the Baltimore Immigration Summit earlier today. It was an interesting experience in terms of getting an incredibly intense overview of the state of immigration in Baltimore City, especially in light of the recent election and changing control of the government. The event was very, very political and themed in response to the recent attempts to build a wall along the Mexican border. The event's subtitle was "Building Bridges" (as in, instead of building walls to divide, let's build bridges to connect).

The keynote speaker, Juan Carlos Ruiz, was very involved in the protests of last spring and the recent senetorial election in Virginia. He spoke about working to organize immigrant communities in political action and activity - and when it came to discussing the attitude of former-sen. Allen, Ruiz actually called him Senator Mucaca.

So, yeah, just wanted to put that out there. Because even my presentation (based heavily in history) ended up being heavily political; almost every question I was asked by the audience was about the state of governance in Baltimore City and political activity in the Korean-American community.