Will the U.S.make immigration reform a major priority?
Will the U.S.make immigration reform a major priority?
- May 19, 2011
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies department chair and political science associate professor, is featured in the Latin American Advisor May 19, 2011
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From the Advisor:
Louis DeSipio, associate professor of political science and chair of Chicano/Latino
studies at University of California Irvine responds to question: "Immigration reform
and the Dream Act will be ongoing elements in the national political debate in the
months leading up to the 2012 elections. While the Obama administration would undoubtedly
be pleased with the passage of comprehensive immigration reform or of the Dream Act
before the next election, its goals in discussing immigration policy are more modest.
Obama will use the bully pulpit of the presidency to ensure that a progressive voice
on immigration policy is part of national immigration discussions. His speech in El
Paso last week, specifically its declaration that demands that enforcement precede
any effort to legalize unauthorized
immigrants had been met, was the first salvo in this effort...
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