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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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ImmigrationProf Blog
In a Time of Trump Why Immigrant Students Are Changing Their Minds About UC President Janet Napolitano
Louis Freedberg in The Atlantic analyzes how students' perceptions of University of California President Janet Napolitano are changing. When she was named UC President in 2013, immigrant students protested her…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Providing Pro Bono Services to Dreamers and Others in the University
By Jeff Baker
This week, at the direction of our university administration, Pepperdine announced several new initiatives to provide focused services on students across the university who are affected by changes and potential…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Habeas Petition by DACA Recipient Detained by ICE Agents
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawA habeas petition filed in Ramirez Medina v. US Department of Homeland Security avers constitutional violations of procedural due…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump Administration Seeks to Remove DACA Recipient, Alleges He is a Mexican “Gang Banger”
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump commenced his campaign by labeling Mexican immigrants as criminals (later referring to them as "bad hombres") and later promised to end the Deferred Action…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Job Opening: University of California Undocumented Legal Services Center
University of California Undocumented Legal Services CenterStaff Attorney Job Summary: Work with University of California Undocumented Legal Services Center attorneys and staff to serve the immigration related needs of UC students and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Activist Gabby Pacheco Has Concrete Advice for DREAMers
Immigration activist Gabby Pacheco has put together a list of concrete advice for DREAMers. It's available on her Facebook account.The tips are wide-ranging and still evolving based on comments from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Senior Obama Administration Official: DACA holders w/crim records, prior orders likely to face removal
As Franco Ordonez of McClatchy DC reports, Leon Fresco, a former senior official in the Obama Administration believes that DACA holders -- particularly those with minor criminal records or prior orders…
The Right Coast
Trump says he’s working on a plan to accommodate DREAMers | Daily Mail Online
President-elect Donald Trump says his administration is working on a plan that will make illegal immigrant children 'very happy,' and it will done in the next couple months.Trump reiterated his…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump to Allow DACA to Die a Natural Death?
Amanda Becker for Reuters reports that :"Trump will likely seek to undo an Obama executive order known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) that allowed people brought into the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Paul Ryan Sympathetic Toward DACA Recipients?
CNN reports that House Speaker Paul Ryan was asked point-blank yesterday at a town hall by a woman whose parents brought her to the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant at age…