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Over 50 students gathered at
the Ford School of Public Policy
to discuss immigration policy
and controversies surrounding
the topic on Monday. The
dialogue
was
hosted
and
facilitated
by
WeListen,
an
organization
dedicated
to
encouraging open conversation
between
conservative
and
liberal students on campus.
WeListen
was
co-founded
last September by Engineering
senior Sonia Thosar and Public
Policy senior Gabriel Lerner.
Frustrated
by
the
partisan
divide and “echo chambers” they
noticed on campus and across
the nation, Thosar and Lerner
launched the organization with
the goal of giving students a
chance
to
address
political
differences in a constructive
way.
WeListen’s
administrative
board, which Thosar describes
as a “50-50 split of liberals
and
conservatives,”
has
since facilitated a number of
discussions on topics such as
gun control, the refugee crisis,
the death penalty and the right
to protest.
Public
Policy
junior
Alli
Berry,
one
of
WeListen’s
co-presidents, said the purpose
of WeListen discussions is to
expose participants to differing
viewpoints and to establish
commonalities.
“The ‘why’ behind someone’s
disagreement is often more
important than what they’re
disagreeing
with
you
on
because a lot of the time our
disagreements actually come
from shared values,” Berry said.
According
to
Thosar,
WeListen
makes
a
particular effort to reach out
to conservative students.
“It is a really liberal
campus, so what we’ve been
really trying to do is market
to conservatives and make
sure they know about us,
and they know that it’s not
a place that they’re going
to get attacked for their
viewpoints,” Thosar said.
“We’ve actually had about
30
percent
conservative
attendance, which is pretty
good
considering
this
school.”
WeListen
gauges
the
political
leanings
of
participants
by
asking
them to sign in and fill out
a survey at the beginning
of each event. Attendees
rank themselves on a scale
of one for most liberal to
seven for most conservative.
Participants also answered
a question about the subject
being discussed.
To kick off Monday’s
session
on
immigration,
WeListen’s
leadership
team
presented
a
few
introductory
slides.
Berry
and
her
co-president,
LSA
sophomore
Nick
Tomaino,
outlined
WeListen’s
mission
and
offered
suggestions
on
how to engage in considerate,
productive conversation.
Other board members gave an
overview of the discussion topic,
reviewing immigration policy
under the past four presidents,
presenting common liberal and
conservative viewpoints on the
issue and highlighting recent
news pertaining to immigration.
The
students
were
then
broken
up
into
politically
diverse groups of six or seven.
The
groupings,
based
on
responses
to
the
entrance
survey, were determined using
a sorting algorithm developed
by WeListen’s vice president of
technology.
Handouts with immigration
facts and statistics, as well as
guiding discussion questions,
were distributed throughout the
room.
The groups spent about 10
minutes
chatting
casually,
then the co-presidents asked
them
to
start
discussing
immigration.
The
groups
delved into topics such as
merit-based
immigration,
assimilation, Trump’s border
wall,
humanitarianism,
visa
expiration and the role of the
United States government in
protecting its citizens. Another
common
theme
was
“brain
drain,”
the
phenomenon
of
highly-trained
professionals
leaving developing nations for
countries like the U.S.
WeListen student group convenes liberal, conversative perspectives for dialogue
ALICE TRACEY
For The Daily
Discussion in Ford School seeks to cross
partisan lines on immigration reform
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