Immigration activists shift focus to Obama
Immigration activists shift focus to Obama
- October 13, 2013
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal October 13, 2013
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From the Wall Street Journal:
Deportation has begun to emerge as a major theme at protests across the country this
month. In particular, Dreamers who traditionally have donned caps and gowns in peaceful
protest or lobbied on Capitol Hill are turning to locks and chains in acts of civil
disobedience, from New York to Arizona. …"Certainly, the administration could do something
like DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] more quickly when a constituency
is willing to be disobedient in a confrontational way," said Louis DeSipio , a professor
of political science at University of California, Irvine
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