Summit on Immigration Today in Marshalltown

Today in Marshalltown a Summit on Immigration is being held. I am able to attend part of the events because school was cancelled due to the snowstorm over the weekend. I will be updating this post as the day goes on.

Rep. Tom Latham was in attendence for the first session of the morning.

I got to the event during the second session. This session included a question and answer session with a panel that includes 2 members from the school district, a person from the Chamber of Commerce, the director of the Community College, and a Marshalltown resident who immigrated from Mexico over ten years ago. Most of the questions pertained to education because most of the panel is from the education field.

Here is one of question that was asked that had a great answer from one of panelists (which recieved loud applause)...

Q: Should it be a requirement to speak English when someone passes the border?

A: It wasn’t a requirement when my Grandfather came to this nation.