‘Undocumented’ U. California Student Group Staging Hunger Strike for ‘Equal Employment Opportunities’
“we’re basically already starving […] we’re just taking it to another level”
There is another alternative here but it would involve going back to their countries of origin.
The College Fix reports:
‘Undocumented’ U. California students to hunger strike for ‘equal employment opportunities’
This past week, the group Undocumented Student-Led Network announced plans for a hunger strike until illegal immigrant students get “equal employment opportunities” in the University of California system.
Students in the country illegally currently are forbidden to hold “any campus job, including research and teaching assistant positions,” The Daily Californian notes.
This is due to 1986’s Immigration Reform & Control Act which forbids the hiring of illegal residents without proper authorization.
The Undocumented Student-Led Network says this means “undocumented students are blocked from countless opportunities that their peers with permanent residency [and] citizenship” have.
Twenty-one students are slated to participate in the hunger strike until UC adopts the so-called “Opportunity For All Campaign,” which will allow the employment of undocumented students.
Leonardo Rodriguez, co-founder of the group Improving Dreams, Equity, Access & Success (IDEAS), claimed “only 14%” of undocumented students get enough financial aid to pay for college. He said some “need to budget for only two meals a day.”
Regarding the hunger strike, IDEAS co-founder Diana Ortiz Aguilar said “we’re basically already starving […] we’re just taking it to another level.”
The UC Board of Regents met Thursday in a closed session to discuss “equitable student employment opportunities,” according to the UC Office of the President. Last year the board had directed the establishment of a “working group” to “come up with implementation plans” for an “Equitable Student Employment Opportunities” policy.
UCLA Law Professor Ahilan Arulanantham claims the UC system “has the power to treat our students equally, and [has] a perfectly sound way to adopt legal theory that would allow them to do it.”
Arulanantham and law peer Hiroshi Motomura (pictured) argue, based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent, that “federal law does not bind state government entities if it does not mention the state explicitly.”
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to bad its in CA. if it was closer to NC
I would walk by eating something hot and fragrant ….. telling them how good it was …
The modern liberal “Hunger Strike” usually entails missing one meal.
How about deporting them?
“The Undocumented Student-Led Network says this means “undocumented students are blocked from countless opportunities that their peers with permanent residency [and] citizenship” have.”
No duh, ya jackass.
Are you sure you’re really ready for college?
Strange. When I was in college I had 2 jobs and ate quite well. As for the hunger strike, well, if they are literally starving then they are not missing anything so how could anyone tell they are doing it
how could anyone tell they are doing it
They’re going to tell you about it, loudly and often.
Like vegans? Ouch
“undocumented students are blocked from countless opportunities that their peers with permanent residency [and] citizenship” have
They’re NOT your peers. You’re here illegally and they are not. They are legal citizens, residents, or visitors. You broke the law to get here. Therefore you are not their “peers” – as a matter of fact, your peers are back in your home country.
You should be blocked from ALL opportunities, everywhere in the US. You’re here illegally. If I had my druthers (along with a lot of other Americans) the only opportunity you should have is to be returned to your country of origin.
Now, get back to work or you’re fired.