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A special project of Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and the campus’s Undocumented Student Program has helped 103 Berkeley students decide whether to apply for a special immigration category that allows them to work legally and to avoid deportation. Most have won approval under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Tag: DREAM Act
Centro Legal de la Raza to honor Birgeneau
March 26, 2013:
Centro Legal de la Raza, a Bay Area organization that supports the rights of immigrant, low-income and Latino communities, has named Robert Birgeneau as recipient of a “visionary-leadership award,” for his efforts on behalf of undocumented students. The chancellor will be honored April 12 at the center’s 44th-anniversary gala.
BBC video features Asian ‘Dreamers’ at Berkeley
March 21, 2013:
Across California, Asian students make up 46 percent of ‘Dreamers’ (who would benefit from the proposed DREAM Act) on UC campuses. Undocumented Asians at Berkeley are featured in a BBC news video.
Math Club president reveals himself to be an undocumented immigrant
February 14, 2013:
In a video released nationally on Feb. 14, UC Berkeley Math Club President Terrence Park reveals that he is an undocumented immigrant and, as part of an effort to sway American minds on immigration, makes an economic case for legislation to make young people like him citizens. SFGate’s Spin Cycle politics blog was first with the news.
Meng So: A campus voice for the undocumented
September 18, 2012:
Meng So arrived in the Bay Area the way many people do — as a child, with parents fleeing strife in their homeland. For the next dozen years, the Sos lacked full legal status. Their struggles to provide for the family, So says, inform his work as UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program coordinator, the only position of its kind at any university in the country.
Chancellor endorses signing of California DREAM Act
October 8, 2011:
Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau commended California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday for signing the California DREAM Act, which makes state-funded scholarships available to undocumented students.
Support offered for undocumented students
September 13, 2011:
Campus officials on Monday (Sept. 12) released the findings of Chancellor Birgeneau’s task force on undocumented students and announced plans to carry out the committee’s recommendations.
DREAM Act and diversity are Constitution Day topics
September 6, 2011:
BERKELEY — Berkeley will celebrate Constitution Day with two events that illuminate different aspects of the nation’s founding document. Because Constitution Day — celebrated on Sept. 17 each year — falls on a Saturday this year, the events are planned before and after the day itself. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, a panel of experts will discuss “The DREAM Act: 10 [...]
Undocumented at Berkeley — Ju Hong speaks out
August 3, 2011:
Ju Hong spent some of the last summer days before starting his senior year at Berkeley in a Southern California jail, for protesting to draw attention to the plight of students who, like him, are undocumented. Now he’s taking his story public.
Birgeneau, in Sacramento, testifies for California Dream Act
June 23, 2011:
UC Berkeley’s chancellor made a return appearance Wednesday in the state Capitol, urging the Senate Education Committee to assist undocumented students in “pursuing the dream of higher education.”
Chancellor Birgeneau urges Congress to pass the DREAM Act
July 21, 2010:
Leaders in higher education, including UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, have asked Congress to act on the DREAM Act, allowing young undocumented immigrants who grew up in the U.S. to get a college education and have a path to legal residency.
