FARMINGTON — Immigration issues have recently taken center stage in public discourse. As part of its effort to expand respectful public dialogue and participate in the national conversation, the University of Maine Farmington has organized a panel discussion to be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in room C-23, Roberts Learning Center. The event is free and open to the public.

UMF faculty, students and community members will join an open discussion in examining immigration from varied perspectives. Topics will focus on changes in immigration policy, DACA, changes in federal support for refugees and their impact on immigrant/refugee communities and Maine as a whole given the contributions that these communities have been making to the aging state.

Panel members include: Fowsia Musse, Maine Community Immigration; Fatuma Hussein, Immigration Resource Center of Maine; Mufalso Chitaro, Maine Immigration Rights Coalition; and Julia A. Brown, Immigration Legal Advocacy Project.

The discussion is sponsored by the UMF International and Global Studies Program and the Office of Global Education. More information on this and other events can be found at https://www.umf-globaled.com/events.