Cold Spring Harbor, NY - February 1, 2017 - With immigration issues at the forefront of headlines this week, Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory today served as a panelist at an immigration forum hosted by the Cold Spring Harbor Junior/Senior High School Civil Rights Activist Club.
Pictured at the Cold Spring Harbor Junior/Senior High School immigration forum are, from left: Professor Tiffany Joseph, student moderator Maxwell Schwartz, Gabriella Andrade of Make the Road New York, student moderator Will Sepanski, Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory, student moderator Anthony Rosato, immigration attorney Zarah Cheema, student moderator Albert Kirchner, and Principal Jay Matuk.
The Presiding Officer and the other panelists fielded questions from students on topics that included immigration and the workforce, access to healthcare, paths to citizenship, immigration policy shifts and their impact, struggles immigrants face, and legislative issues pertaining to immigration. The other panelists were Tiffany Joseph, sociology professor at Stony Brook University; Gabriella Andrade of Make the Road New York; and immigration attorney Zarah Cheema.