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(TI. Page B2 el O bservador Conference on Latino Issues for the Study o f W om en in S ociety 's Gender, Families, and Immigration Project and distin guished professor of anthropol ogy. “ In addition, we are inter ested in exploring how these is sues can provide opportunities for alliance building for im m i grant rights.” The event will be free and open to the public, beginning T hurs day evening. May 22, and con tinuing all day Friday, May 23. It will be held at the UO W illiam H. Knight Law Center in Eugene. A dvanced registration is not required. Lynn Stephen “ I see this conference giving More than 30 coin niunity lead the Latino com m unity a sense of ers and advocates for im m igrants’ hope in the midst o f a lot of rights will be at the University of negative publicity focused on Oregon to take part in the C onfer im m igrant legal statu s,” said ence on Gender, Families and Patricia Cortez, president of the board of directors of the Amigos Latino Immigration in Oregon. “We are providing a unique M ulticultural C enter in Eugene forum on immigration by focus and mem ber of the conference’s ing specifically on how im m igra advisory board. “This is im por tion politics and policies affect tant work, especially from my Latino immigrant women, men, perspective as an im m igrant.” For more inform ation, visit families and youth," said Lynn csw s.u o reg o n .edu . 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Migrant Rights Law Applauded Mexico moves to remove penalties ( AP) - Migrant-rights activ ists applauded a vote by Mexico’s Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocum ented m igrants found in the country. The measure passed unani mously in the lower house last week, a day after Senate ap proval. P resid en t Felipe Calderon’s office declined to say whether he would sign the popular measure into law. Mexican lawmakers saw the harsh penalties as an anachro nism. and some noted Mexico also owes migrants better treat ment. Im m igrants here, m ostly Central Americans trying to reach the U .S ., are often Mexico has its own illegal immigrant population and, until recently, dealt with them using very harsh penalties. robbed, mistreated and sub ject to extortion by bandits and even police. “ It is very positive that they have removed the criminal pen alties from the current law,” said Karina Arias, the spokes woman for Sin Fronteras, a Mexican group that promotes rights for migrants in Mexico. H a v e y o u seen m e? Endangered Missing “It is a big step forward.” Current law lays out punish ments of I I /2 to 6 years, while the new measure makes un documented immigration a mi nor offense punishable by fines equivalent to about $2,400. Some Mexican officials ac knowledged that the current harsh p e n a ltie s w eakened Mexico’s position in arguing for better treatment of its own mi grants in the United States. 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