“Immigration and border security”

TUESDAY MARCH 28, 2006

11-11:30 a.m. PDT

Smittcamp Alumni House —Whitten Room

California State University, Fresno

Rev. Robin Hoover, co-founder and president of Humane Borders

Dr. Carlos Perez, chair of the Chicano/Latin American Studies Dept — Fresno State

Rev. Robin Hoover, co-founder and president of Humane Borders, which provides humanitarian assistance to migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, will arrive in Fresno Tuesday morning and be available to news media at a press conference at 11 a.m.

He will be in town to participate in two events on Wednesday, March 29, as part of Fresno State’s Cesar E. Chavez Celebration — a panel debate at 3 p.m. and a keynote address at 7 p.m. He will speak in Chicano Studies classes Tuesday at 2 p.m. and Wednesday at 9 a.m. and noon. On Thursday morning, before departing, he will appear on Al Franken’s Air America show being held in Fresno.

His visit is sponsored by the Chicano/Latin American Studies Department in collaboration with the Political Science Department and the College of Social Sciences.

At the press conference, Rev. Hoover will be available to discuss the March 29 Fresno State events that focus on immigration and border security issues and also to comment on the recent protests by immigration activists as well as the immigration legislation hearings under way in the U.S. Senate this week. He was interviewed this morning (March 27) for an ABC World News report show that airs at 5:30 p.m. PDT either tonight or Tuesday night.

Humane Borders is a nonprofit social justice organization that helps undocumented immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border in Arizona by placing water stations in the desert and maps to show migrants where to find the water during their journey. The organization was founded by Hoover in 2000 to try to prevent the deaths of people crossing the desert. According to the Humane Borders organization, more than 1,000 migrants are

known to have died in Southern California and Arizona in the six years ended last August.

PARKING: TV VEHICLES — on sidewalk in front of South Gym – enter from Barstow Avenue at Campus Drive dead-end. ALL OTHER MEDIA: Lot D near Madden Library — enter from Shaw Avenue at Barton Ave. (If Alumni House: TV park in small lot on east side. All others in short term lot on west side).

MEDIA NOTE: For Wednesday’s events in the Peters Business Building, a media room will be set up with internet and phone access for working news media.

See the original press release at: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2006/03/Human0/020Borders.htm. Cesar Chavez Celebration press release: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2006/031Chavez.htm.