We cannot afford not to pass the DREAM Act: A plea from immigration scholars
We cannot afford not to pass the DREAM Act: A plea from immigration scholars
- December 9, 2010
- An op-ed co-authored by a number of UCI social sciences scholars is featured in the Huffington Post December 8, 2010
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In an open letter to the Huffington Post, a number of national immigration scholars - including UCI social sciences faculty and graduate alumni - make a public plea for support and passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a federal bill aimed at providing immigration relief to undocumented students. Included among the social sciences faculty signatures: Frank D. Bean, sociology; Susan Brown, sociology; Leo Chavez , anthropology; Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science; Cynthia Feliciano, Chicano/Latino studies and sociology; Jennifer Lee, sociology; and Rubén G. Rumbaut, sociology.
A full copy of the letter is available on line at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roberto-g-gonzales/we-can-not-afford-not-t....
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