Immigration

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ADVISORY for May 2

The extended dialogue with Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez and top Latin American policy officials will focus on three questions: (1) the importance of immigration for Mexico and other Latin American countries; (2) what most troubles Latin American governments about current U.S. policy and what they think has to be done about it; and (3) what reciprocal measures they are prepared to undertake.

WHO:
-- Luis Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico

-- Carolina Barco Isakson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia

-- Francisco Esteban Laínez Rivas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador

-- Samuel Lewis Navarro, Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Panama

-- Norman Caldera Cardenal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nicaragua

-- Roberto Tovar Faja, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Costa Rica

-- Jorge Briz Abularach, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guatemala

-- Doris Meissner, Migration Policy Institute

-- Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue

-- Rafael Fernández de Castro, Foreign Affairs en Español

-- Demetrios Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute

WHEN:
May 2, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

WHERE:
This event will not be held at MPI. It will be held in the Members Room (LJ-160) of the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress

101 Independence Ave, SE, Washington, D.C. 20540 (Entrance on 1st Street).

RSVP: RSVPs are required. Please contact Lisa Dixon at 202-266-1929 or ldixon@migrationpolicy.org.

This event is sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue, Foreign Affairs en Español and the Migration Policy Institute.