immigration

Although some of the promised faces were absent Friday at “The Real Face of Immigration,” about 125 students from a broad coalition of campus and city groups offered up their own stories in what became a open forum on Latin American immigration.

Four legal experts discussed the growing number of local governments attempting to exert control over immigration policy, a hot issue in the ongoing presidential campaign in a panel discussion at the Law School Wednesday night.

Those of us who were even semi-awake last fall remember the last time Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project came to campus. Promised the kind of provocative conservative voice that would enhance on-campus debate and intellectual inquiry about immigration, we got instead a brawl that pitted student activists against the Minutemen and stirred a media blitz that had every news outlet from Fox News to New York Times decrying Columbia University as intolerant and hostile to ideological diversity.