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New policy allows undocumented student’s return to UCLA Deferred action for childhood arrivals means Bruin can attend school, work and care for son BY DYLAN NGUYEN
Bruin contributor
dnguyen@media.ucla.edu He was 16 years old and needed a job with more structure. But he didn’t have the required identification papers as an undocumented resident. So he turned to identification dealers, who drove him around Santa Ana, Calif. and gave him specific instructions to jump into a different car when they parked. They told him he was going be taken care of. F ra nci sco Lopez, now a third-year Chicana/o studies student at UCLA, didn’t know where he was being taken to, but he knew what he needed.
“I need an ID and a Social Security number,” he said he remembers telling the dealers. Lopez knew what he did was a crime, but it was necessary, he said. “I felt like I was in a drug deal,” Lopez said. “But all I was trying to do is work.” In the end, he got what he needed – a minimum-wage job at a bowling alley. Lopez, now 28, holds two jobs on top of his classes to support himself and his 7-year-old son, Mordecai. Until earlier this year, he was an undocumented resident. But in February, Lopez qualified for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy approved by
the Department of Homeland Security a year ago. Deferred action provided the legal documents Lopez he said he fought years for. The Defer red Action for Ch i ld hood A r r iv a l s pol icy allows some undocumented individuals to legally live and work in the U.S. for two years without threat of deportation, if they meet certain criteria. Homeland Security initiated the policy to focus deportation efforts on undocumented individuals who pose a public safety risk rather than undocumented individuals who are young and productive, according to the Homeland Security website. Undocumented individuals can qualify if they arrived in
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RECENT STEPS OF IMMIGRATION REFORM Oct. 12, 2001 Gov. Gray Davis signs AB 540, which allows nonresidents to qualify for in-state tuition if they attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.
Oct. 8, 2011
2001 Gov. Jerry Brown signs AB 130, which makes scholarships from non-state funds available to nonresident students who have attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.
July 25, 2011
June 15, 2012
Gov. Jerry Brown signs AB 131, which makes financial aid available to nonresidents who have attended a California high school for three years and meet other conditions.
The Department of Homeland Security begins allowing certain undocumented individuals brought to the U.S. as children to qualify for deferred action from deportation.
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The bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, which includes a 13-year path to citizenship and measures to increase border security, passes the Senate Judiciary Committee and sets for debate on the Senate floor. The US has not seen such major immigration reform since 1986.
May 21, 2013
SOURCE: Daily Bruin archives, Office of Legislative Counsel. Graphic reporting by Kristen Taketa, Bruin senior staff. Graphic by Natalie Chudnovsky, Bruin contributor.