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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: immigration
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.
Professor makes case for U.S.-Mexico border without walls
March 19, 2013:
Against the background of fierce debate on immigration reform, Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work examines the often-thriving, but threatened, cross-border lives in communities straddling the U.S.-Mexico border.
Biometric ID cards for workers would cost $40 billion, study says
February 9, 2012:
The first-ever in-depth analysis of the costs of establishing a biometric employment identity card, just released by Berkeley Law’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, finds that cards for all workers would cost $40 billion, and would infringe on civil liberties and fail to stop the employment of undocumented immigrants.
Daily Cal special feature delves into DREAM Act
November 30, 2011:
A team of student journalists explores the California DREAM Act, which grants undocumented students access to publicly funded financial aid, in a special project of The Daily Californian. The multimedia package, “Dream State,” looks at political, historical, financial and personal dimensions of a controversial issue.
UC hails rejection of challenge to AB 540 tuition rules
June 7, 2011:
UC’s general counsel expresses satisfaction that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the California Supreme Court’s unanimous decision upholding the legality of AB 540, the California state law that allows certain nonresidents, including some undocumented students, who attend and graduate from a California high school to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities.
Immigrants often eat high-calorie American junk food to fit in
May 3, 2011:
A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington suggests immigrants and their children often gain weight because they eat junk food to fit in with American culture. The findings will be published in the June issue of Psychological Science.
Hunger strike continues despite chancellor’s offer to meet
May 12, 2010:
A hunger strike by a small group of UC Berkeley Chicano/Latino students and their supporters went into its ninth day today (Tuesday, May 11), despite a plea yesterday by campus administrators that the protesters end it that evening in exchange for a meeting today with Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. This afternoon, about 60 people held a rally in front of California Hall in support of the strikers and their demands.
Chancellor Birgeneau denounces Arizona immigration bill
May 7, 2010:
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has denounced Arizona Bill SB 1070, saying the immigration measure cannot be implemented without engaging in racial profiling.
