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IMMIGRATION Dear Friends, I am thrilled to welcome you to tonight’s much-anticipated Debating Immigration Forum.

We’re very proud to bring the topic of immigration to our Forum platform this evening -- just weeks before a presidential election -- for a timely and important debate about immigration policy, real life challenges, and where we go from here. Our distinguished panel will share their unique perspectives in a live, unscripted, civil conversation, and help all of us better understand this complex and divisive issue, and the terms of the debate playing out on our national stage.

I encourage you to listen actively and openly to tonight’s conversation. Please take a moment to visit the websites of the organizations listed on page 20 to learn more about immigrant-serving organizations here in Connecticut.

In these tumultuous times, our coming together as a community to talk, listen, and connect, albeit virtually, takes on greater meaning. We are so very thankful for you -- our diverse and wonderful Forum community of subscribers, sponsors, donors, volunteers, and ticket buyers. Thank you for championing our work and mission with your enduring support. Enjoy tonight’s livestreamed Forum (a first!) and stay tuned for more exciting programming coming your way soon from The CT Forum.

10. 14. 2020 7:30 PM Welcome & Introductions

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Panel Discussion General John F. Kelly Attorney General Loretta Lynch Jose Antonio Vargas Evan Osnos, Moderator

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GENERAL JOHN KELLY Former White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security

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who retired as a four-star general in 2016. As an officer, General Kelly served in a number of command, staff, and school assignments, and duty on Capitol Hill as the Commandant’s liaison to the U.S. Congress.

Kelly was assigned duty as the Assistant Chief of Staff G-3 with the 2nd Marine Division. In 2002, selected to the rank of Brigadier General, he again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the Assistant Division Commander. Much of the next two years was spent deployed fighting in Iraq. He then returned to Headquarters Marine Corps as the Legislative Assistant to the Commandant. Promoted to Major General, he returned to Camp Pendleton as the Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). The command deployed to Iraq in early 2008 for a year-long mission as Multinational Force-West in Al Anbar and western Ninewa provinces.

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Kelly served as the Senior Military Assistant to two Secretaries of Defense, Messrs. Gates and Panetta, before being nominated for a fourth star and command of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), a position he held until January 2016.

During his time in command of SOUTHCOM he worked closely with the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency. He also worked intimately with Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and the Department of Homeland Security.

After less than a year in retirement General Kelly was confirmed in 2017 as the fifth Secretary of Homeland Security. After six months, he was selected to serve as White House Chief of Staff, a position he held until January 2019.

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LORETTA LYNCH Former Attorney General of the United States

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leading progressive voice during her more than 30-year career.

Lynch is the first female African American Attorney General of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015. She also served as the head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York twice, under both President Clinton and President Obama. Described by President Obama as “the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters, drug lords, and terrorists, and still has the reputation for being a charming ‘people person,’” she has been instrumental in shaping the direction of the nation on a number of tough issues. Lynch improved the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities they serve, and she has taken bold stances on criminal justice reform.

Lynch has spent years in the trenches rising through the ranks as a prosecutor, aggressively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, and cybercrime -- all while vigorously defending civil and human rights.

While leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, she became known for the highprofile civil rights conviction of two Brooklyn police officers who brutally assaulted Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

While in private practice, Lynch served as a volunteer legal advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that nation.

Born in Greensboro, NC, Lynch is the daughter of Lorenzo and Lorine Lynch, whose shared commitment to justice inspired her career in public service. She attended Harvard University and the Harvard School of Law.

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JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist, Filmmaker, and Immigration Advocate L Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,

Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and theatrical producer.

A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants, he founded the non-profit media and culture organization Define American, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. His best-selling memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, was published

by HarperCollins in 2018. Most recently, he co-produced Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed play What the Constitution Means to Me, which opened on Broadway in 2019.

In 2011, The New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay Vargas wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines. A year later, he appeared on the cover of TIME magazine with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a follow-up cover story he wrote.

Vargas then produced and directed Documented, an autobiographical documentary feature film that aired on CNN and received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary. Also in 2015, MTV aired White People, an Emmy-nominated television special he produced and directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America.

Passionate about the role of arts in society and promoting equity in education, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students.

A product of the San Francisco Bay Area, Vargas is a proud graduate of San Francisco State University, where he was named Alumnus of the Year in 2012, and Mountain View High School. An elementary school named after Vargas opened in his hometown of Mountain View, CA, in 2019.

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EVAN OSNOS Journalist, National Book Award-winner, and Staff Writer at The New Yorker

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Co-author of the lead story, “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War,” about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Osnos also wrote the cover story “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea.” Traveling to Pyongyang, North Korea for rare interviews with government officials, Osnos discussed their view of the Trump Administration and the prospect of war with the United States.

Based on his eight years living in Beijing, Age of Ambition is a multi-layered look at the rise of the individual in China and the clash between aspiration and authoritarianism. A Pulitzer Prize-finalist, Age of

Ambition was called “a splendid and entertaining picture of 21st-century China” by The Wall Street Journal. The Washington Post wrote that “Osnos has portrayed and explained…this new China better than any other writer from the West or the East.”

In 2003, Osnos embedded himself with the U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq and spent two years as the Chicago Tribune’s Middle East Correspondent. His piece “The Fallout,” about the events and aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, won a 2012 Overseas Press Club Award.

Osnos graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

A Fellow at the Brookings Institution, he is a contributor on This American Life and Frontline, and has made numerous appearances on Morning Joe, and Fareed Zakaria GPS. This is Osnos’ second time as a Connecticut Forum moderator.

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Be sure to visit their websites to learn more about the vital services these groups provide for the immigrant communities in Connecticut.

Thank you to the following participating organizations: The American Place at Hartford Public Library (TAP)

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Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition (CIRC)

A broad-based network of community organizations, religious, and business groups, and legal service providers committed to protecting the rights and economic development of refugee and immigrant communities.

Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI)

Provides legal, economic, linguistic, and social services to immigrants, refugees, and survivors of human trafficking and torture throughout Connecticut.

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Acts as a hub, connecting and giving referrals to successful programs and classes in the Greater Hartford area, and offers new programs, services, and classes, based on the needs and requests of immigrants.

Hartford Interval House (IH)

A domestic violence agency that makes a positive difference in the lives of more than 225,000 women, men, and children who have experienced psychological, emotional, and physical abuse.

Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS)

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