Undocumented Students and Affirmative Action
By John S. Rosenberg February 14, 2019
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is on everyone’s short list as a primary building block of any possible compromise between President Trump and the Democrats on immigration. Thus, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to the striking similarities between the debate over that issue and the equally contentious debate over affirmative action.
There are 3.6 million “DREAMers†in the US, according to the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute, but only 800,000 of those undocumented children brought to the US before their 18th birthday are accounted for in DACA.
Advocates of DACA and preferential admissions offer virtually identical justifications for both policies. For example, Dr. Ann Reed, Chair of the Duke Department of Pediatrics and Dr. Richard Chung, Director of Adolescent Medicine at Duke, ground their support for DACA in their “unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion.â€
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2019/02/14/undocumented-students-and-affirmative-action/
