NIU Law Sponsors Symposium on Cross-Border Migration of Unaccompanied Minors

NIU College of Law will sponsor a symposium on “Cross-Border Migration of Unaccompanied Minors: Prospects for Legislative and Policy Reform.”

Scheduled for Friday, April 24 from 9 am - 3:30 pm at Altgeld Hall (room #315) on the NIU campus in DeKalb, Illinois 60115, the program is free and open to the public - and will include breakfast, lunch and MCLE hours for attending attorneys.  Registration is required - see link below for details.

The symposium will feature three 90-minute panels and a one-hour presentation by featured speaker Joshua Hoyt, Executive Director of the National Partnership for New Americans. Illinois State Senator Toi Hutchinson (pictured) is among the speakers.

Topics will include the core reasons for migration across the border by unaccompanied minors, detention & representation issues, and legislation and policy considerations.

To learn more about, and register for, the event, please click here: http://www.niu.edu/law/calendar/events/2015/faculty_symposium_apr15.shtml.