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.

