“Papers” Screening: Building Awareness for Undocumented Youth
NSC is co-sponsoring two public screenings of the documentary film PAPERS with the Methodist Federation for Social Action, Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter and the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC).
PAPERS is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status.
Join us in raising awareness about the lives of undocumented youth and learn how you can support the DREAM Act, a bill introduced in Congress in 2009 that would provide legal status to undocumented youth who were brought to the U.S. as children, provided they complete two years of college or military service.
According to the film’s website, 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers” and the door to their future slams shut. There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. These are young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and yet risk deportation to countries they may not even remember.
Screening Information:
Date: Thursday, February 25
Time: 5:30pm
Location Arch Street United Methodist Church, Broad and Arch Streets.
Date: Saturday, February 27
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church, 8812 Germantown Avenue
Remarks by Dennis Mulligan, Executive Director of Nationalities Service Center (NSC), and NSC attorney David Bennion, will follow the screening.
$5.00 at the door. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information:
Margaret Harris at 215.568.2206
Kathrin Ivanovic at 215.893.8400 x 1522
