Dream Act backers identify themselves despite deportation risk
Dream Act backers identify themselves despite deportation risk
- June 29, 2011
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies department chair and political science associate professor, is quoted in the AZ Central, Arizona Republic, and Voice of Tucson June 29, 2011
From AZ Central:
ICE agents dragging students away from a congressional hearing or rally is not the
kind of image the agency wants, said Louis DeSipio, an associate professor of Chicano/Latino
studies at the University of California, Irvine. "I think ICE would try to avoid that
role whether the administration was Democratic or Republican," DeSipio said. "It would
not only be a public-relations disaster at the time of the detention but throughout
the whole process of deporting them." Public sympathy for the young, accomplished
immigrants has helped immigrant-rights groups keep them from being deported even when
ICE agents do arrest them, said Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America's
Voice, a group that supports the Dream Act.
For the full story, please visit http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/29/20110629dream-act-ille....
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