{"id":253,"date":"2020-05-04T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?p=253"},"modified":"2024-07-23T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:51:47","slug":"covid-19-conversations-angela-maria-kelley-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/covid-19-conversations-angela-maria-kelley-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Conversations: Angela Maria Kelley on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Riley Institute\u2019s Center for Critical Issues \u201cbrings the world to Furman\u201d by hosting a diverse roster of speakers on campus each year. While our events are on hold due to COVID-19, The Riley Institute\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/riley.furman.edu\/riley\/about\/advance-team\/advance-team\">Advance Team<\/a> students are (virtually) bringing notable past speakers into their own homes for thoughtful conversations about the coronavirus\u2019s impact on many facets of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qO0AuzWIjSU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the global community seeks to slow the spread of COVID-19, countries have imposed strict travel restrictions and shut down their borders. In the United States, the health crisis has complicated the nation\u2019s long-standing immigration debate.<\/p>\n<p><em>What unique challenges do immigrants face as a result of the coronavirus? How has the crisis taken shape along the U.S.-Mexico border? How will President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order to pause the distribution of green cards effect immigration in the long term?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>COVID-19 Conversations<\/em>, Advance Team members Vanesa Rodriguez, Shekinah Lightner, and Grace Guynn pose these questions and others like them to immigration expert Angela Maria Kelley.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley currently serves as the senior strategic advisor for immigration at the nonpartisan nonprofit Open Society Foundations and Open Society Policy Center. In 2014, she served as a White House advisor on immigration executive actions. Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/riley.furman.edu\/riley\/critical-issues\/american-politics-and-policy\/2020-angela-maria-kelley\">Kelley spent several days on Furman\u2019s campus<\/a> as the Riley Institute\u2019s Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this recording are those of the individuals appearing in the video and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Riley Institute or Furman University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute\u2019s Center for Critical Issues \u201cbrings the world to Furman\u201d by hosting a diverse roster of speakers on campus each year. While our events are on hold due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-public-policy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}