Conservatives should love what UC did for immigrant students
To the editor: I’m one of many authors of the authorized memo that undergirds the Alternative For All marketing campaign, which seeks to take away hiring restrictions for all College of California college students, no matter immigration standing. (“UC regents take groundbreaking step towards hiring immigrant college students with out authorized standing,” Could 18)
Our idea rests on rules that ought to be notably engaging to conservative authorized students (and judges): shut constancy to the textual content of the Immigration Reform and Management Act, and respect for state autonomy.
It additionally will allow UC to offer equal instructional alternatives to all of its college students.
I’m happy with the college for having the braveness to embrace an thought whose time has actually come. I hope authorized actors throughout the political spectrum will now do the identical.
Ahilan Arulanantham, South Pasadena
The author is co-director of UCLA’s Heart for Immigration Legislation and Coverage.
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To the editor: The UC regents’ resolution to assist employment alternatives for undocumented college students is lengthy overdue.
For greater than 20 years, Congress has didn’t cross the Dream Act, a smart piece of laws that would offer undocumented youth with a path to citizenship by attending faculty or serving within the U.S. navy. The shortcoming of Congress to enact any significant immigration reform is doing irreparable hurt to immigrant college students and their households, in addition to to society as an entire.
I’ve taught at UCLA for greater than 30 years. A few of the best college students of my profession have been undocumented immigrant college students who’ve succeeded in opposition to all obstacles. And but, even with a level from UCLA, they’ve been legally barred from working.
UC is standing on the appropriate aspect of historical past by offering job alternatives for immigrant college students to allow them to totally contribute to our universities and to our society.
Kent Wong, Los Angeles
The author is director of the UCLA Labor Heart.
