Students eye measures to keep 'movement' alive after Republicans block youth immigration bill

Students eye measures to keep 'movement' alive after Republicans block youth immigration bill
- January 3, 2011
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies department chair and political science associate professor, is quoted in the Associated Press and 5 additional publications December 19, 2010
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From the AP:
Few said the legislation, many called the Dream Act, had a chance in the next two
years with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives and a shrinking
Democratic majority in the Senate. But they said that wouldn't derail the networks
they had set up across the country to support illegal immigrant students and help
them reveal their status and learn to live unafraid.... Another challenge is students
could wind up feeling excluded when they can't work after graduation, despite their
political activism. "It may alienate the group we most want to incorporate," said
Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at University of California, Irvine.
Immigrant rights groups said they planned to turn up the pressure on the Obama administration
to slow deportations, end local police enforcement of immigration laws and look out
for the students, many of whom publicly revealed their immigration status over the
last few months.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-immigrat....
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