Anyone who registers for this event by February 22 will receive free tickets to the performance of Las Chicas on February 22 at the MCA. More information below.

On January 28, 2008, undocumented immigrant Flor Crisostomo defied a deportation order and took sanctuary in Humboldt Park’s Adalberto United Methodist Church—the same church in which Elvira Arellano took sanctuary for a year before she was deported to Mexico. Flor views her act as civil disobedience, or what Martin Luther King called “a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

What does it mean for a person to be “illegal?” How do we view the contradiction that undocumented immigrants violate immigration law, while at the same time work low-wage jobs essential to our economy? As a society, how do we understand the new sanctuary movement, in which churches shelter undocumented immigrants and cities like Chicago and Evanston prohibit local authorities from disclosing an individual’s immigration status?

Join us for a lively, critical conversation about these questions and other issues surrounding undocumented immigration at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Anita Marie Ortiz, immigration attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center, and other guests TBA.

FREE TICKETS to the February 22 performance of Las Chicas at the Museum of Contemporary Art will be available to all who register for this brown bag lunch. Tickets are first-come, first-serve and can be picked up at the reception desk at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

Click here for more information about Las Chicas at the MCA.