{"id":2406,"date":"2016-02-18T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:42:07","slug":"senator-dick-durbin-spoke-on-undocumented-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Senator Dick Durbin Spoke on Undocumented Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past December, Senator Dick Durbin came to Loyola to speak about undocumented students, the challenges and opportunities they face, and how his own work for comprehensive immigration\u00a0reform has been informed by his Catholic faith and his experience as a first-generation American.<\/p>\n

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Senator Dick Durbin addressing the Loyola community<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IPS Professor Dr. Michael Canaris was one of many IPS community members in attendance and he had this reflection to share about the event and the Senator’s speech:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Scriptures and Christian teaching are unambiguous in their call to stand in solidarity with the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the exile, and to respect the dignity of every human person. Senator Durbin\u2019s work on behalf of migrants and refugees throughout his career has echoed this mandate and, when traced through sponsorship of the DREAM Act for instance, helped in many ways to inspire a re-appreciation of Loyola\u2019s commitment to this underserved population across disciplines. It\u2019s an issue that reflects our values as a university rooted in Catholic and Jesuit traditions, and has historical antecedents going back to the school\u2019s founding and in fact to the original Company of Ignatius.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Durbin’s talk hit home for many Loyola students who were in the audience\u00a0who are immigrants and\/or a part of the Senator’s\u00a0DREAM (Development,\u00a0Relief and\u00a0Education for\u00a0Alien\u00a0Minors) Act. These students, affectionately called Dreamers, continue to grow in number and attend colleges across the country, with the largest population right here at Loyola Chicago.<\/p>\n

The event titled, “Undocumented Students: Perspectives from a US Senator informed by the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching and his own family\u2019s story,” was live tweeted through the Loyola IPS Twitter account and spurred conversation using the hashtags: #SenDurbinSpeaks and #SenDurbinVisitsIPS. You can see some of the conversation below.<\/p>\n

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Join the conversation by\u00a0following\u00a0@BrianSchmisek<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and\u00a0@LoyolaIPS<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram! Also, network with the\u00a0Loyola Chicago IPS<\/a>\u00a0community on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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