At this time, tens of thousands of undocumented students are graduating with no prospect of being able to utilize their degrees and work.
Legal experts at the UCLA School of Law have recently discovered that the Immigration Reform & Control Act (IRCA), a federal law that prohibits undocumented workers from working in federal jobs, does not apply to states. Using these findings, undocumented students launched the “Opportunity For All” campaign at the University of California where their extraordinary organizing efforts resulted in the University of California Board of Regents to vote for a plan to allow undocumented students to work at the University of California regardless of their immigration status.
We want the same here in New York City.