In response to abdication by the federal government of its responsibility to address comprehensively our failing immigration system, state and local governments have undertaken a variety of legislative and law enforcement initiatives that have, in turn, spawned legal challenges asserting that initiatives overstep the authority of state and local governments and pose the potential for discriminatory enforcement. With Congress seemingly incapable of passing immigration legislation in the near future, these conflicts will only intensify. Speakers: Michael Hethmon, Executive Director, Immigration Reform Law Institute J. Thomas Manger, Chief of Police, Montgomery County, Maryland Juan Osuna, U.S. Department of Justice Jamin Raskin, Director of the Law and Government Program, American University Washington College of Law J. Walter Tejada, Chairman, Arlington County Board