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Start: Mar 2 2008 - 2:45pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 4:15pm
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In these challenging times, millions of immigrants face critical issues that are sidetracked by the obsessive focus on illegal immigration and national security. Without question, the complicated configuration of immigrant families, who often have citizens, green-card holders and undocumented members, hold immigration reform high on their list of priorities. Yet, there are other issues that have not been brought up in the election campaigns. Whether it is about language-access, quality healthcare and wider employment opportunities for people of color and low-income, the lack of discourse about these immigrant issues not only restricts public opinion process, but it leaves immigrants in limbo. Why is it significant to inform immigrant readers about the U.S. election process? How can ethnic media promote policy change?
Anthony D. Advincula is the managing editor and communications director for New York Community Media Alliance (formerly Independent Press Association-New York).

