The Fair Immigration Reform Movement and The Nation to Host Presidential Forum in Las Vegas: Presidential Candidates Sanders and O’Malley Confirmed
The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), in partnership with The Nation, will host a nonpartisan presidential candidate forum that will take place in two sessions in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday, November 8 and Monday November 9, 2015 at the LINQ Hotel. All Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have been invited to participate. Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have confirmed attendance.
The presidential forum sessions, which are part of a three day FIRM Strategy Summit that will take place in Las Vegas, NV from November 8-10, provides an opportunity for presidential candidates to address issues that directly impact the Latino and immigrant communities in America and to discuss their vision for the future of the country.
FIRM is a national coalition of grassroots organizations fighting for immigrant rights at the state, local, and federal level.
The forum sessions will be live streamed on The Nation and FIRM’s websites.
WHO: Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders (Confirmed)
Democratic Presidential Candidate Martin O’Malley (Confirmed)
All Republican and Democratic candidates have been invited
Fair Immigration Reform Movement
The Nation
Over 350 immigrant right advocates
WHAT: Presidential Forum
WHEN: Sunday, November 8th at 4:00 p.m. PST. (Candidate Martin O’Malley)
Monday, November 9th at 11:00 a.m. PST (Candidate Bernie Sanders)
WHERE: The LINQ Hotel. 3535 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
UPDATE (November 9): The Washington Post reports that former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley intensified his attacks against the two other Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday. O’Malley told a meeting of immigration activists in the early caucus state of Nevada that Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders each represent “the failed thinking of the past” and have governed with a strategy of “poll-tested triangulation.” O’Malley singled out Clinton’s opposition to granting driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants in New York.
KJ