Interesting conference in the Bay Area

The federal government's failure to adequately address immigration reform has hurt everybody. These millionaires in Washington have practiced a bit of population control (raids), staged a slight photo-op patch on the issue (the Border wall), and sat through a lot of procrastination (going from the most discussed item in 2006 and 2007 to no mention in 2008 because we are busy practicing democracy).

Meanwhile, city councils and county officials have taken up the work of regulating the presence and lifestyle of undocumented immigrants, where does that leave us?

The folks at UC Hastings College of the Law's Center for State and Local Government Law are off to discuss it this week in their conference: Cities and Counties in the Global Economy: Local Immigration and Economic Policies under a Microscope.

The full schedule, which includes presentation from the National Immigration Law Center and the Migrant Policy Institute, is here.

I am too far from San Francisco, but if any Dreamers up there want to write a review, send it over and let us know how it goes.