Dreher to address Changes in Immigration Law at Clemson Area League of Women Voters meeting

Immigration issues are the focus of the Feb. 17 meeting of the Clemson Area League of Women Voters, and all area residents are welcomed. The speaker is David Dreher, a veteran of 25 years in the U.S. Foreign Service and teacher of immigration issues in Clemson’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). The presentation centers on changes in U.S. immigration law over the past century, ending with President Obama’s Executive Orders and the Senate Immigration Reform Bill of 2014. Drawing on his overseas experience, Dreher will talk about the adjudication of tourist and student visa applications at U.S. embassies and consulates. “Immigration is a hot button issue once again, with (President) Obama’s unilateral actions to protect many current immigrants from deportation and Congress’s pushback,” says Holley Ulbrich, co-chair of the local League’s program and action committee. “Many of us in the Clemson League participated in the national League consensus on Immigration a few years ago.” Included in the national League’s position on this issue are support of fair treatment for all persons under the law and “federal immigration law that provides an efficient, expeditious system for legal entry of immigrants into the United States,” according to the U.S. League’s website. Doors open at 7pm and the program starts promptly at 7:30pm in the main meeting room of the OLLI Center at 100 Thomas Green Blvd in Clemson’s Patrick Square.