This Saturday afternoon from 2-5:00pm there’s going to be a debate on U.S. Immigration Policy at Florida Southwestern State College’s Charlotte County Campus. It will focus on topics like DACA and TPS, asylum and refugee seeker status, and the detention & separation of families. What makes this debate, about such contentious issues, different, is it’s being conducted by students from Port Charlotte High School’s award-winning Model United Nations team.
Participating students have been assigned a side, either left-leaning politics or right-leaning politics, and have been researching those perspectives and trying to find the facts that support them.
The event, which is open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Charlotte County, and the Hispanic American Citizens Council of Charlotte County.
We’re joined by the two team captains: Annamaria Belevitch is a senior at Port Charlotte High School, and
Carson McNamara is also a senior at Port Charlotte High. And we're joined by Betty C. Barriga, Chair of the Immigration Justice Committee at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Charlotte.