Immigration forum slated Sunday at Princeton Public Library

By: Courtney Gross
   The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a Princeton nonprofit organization, is co-sponsoring a public forum on national and local policy perspectives on illegal immigration with U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) and community representatives of Riverside Township in Burlington County 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
   During the event, to be held at the Princeton Public Library’s Community Room, Rep. Holt will speak on the most recent legislative measures on immigration, while community leaders from Riverside — the first municipality in New Jersey to pass an ordinance fining business owners for employing illegal immigrants and landlords for renting to them — will take the local angle.
   Invited panelists include Marisol Conde-Hernandez of the Latino Reform Youth Council; Regina Collinsgru, founder and vice president of the Riverside Business Association; David Verduin, president of the Coalition of Business Owners and Landlords in Riverside; and Victoria Airgood, Robert Duncan and William Wakefield of the Immigration Reform Advocacy Group in Princeton.
   Admission is free, and the event is open to the public. A question-and-answer period will follow the presentations.