MEDIA ADVISORY for: Agosto 8, 2023
CONTACTO
Silvia Vázquez, UCLA Labor Center y Dream Resource Center, vazsil89@ucla.edu, 424-354-6069
Hayley Burgess, UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, burgess@law.ucla.edu, 626-497-2341
Undocumented Student Leaders and Members of the UC Board of Regents Will Discuss Historic Decision to Remove Hiring Restrictions for Undocumented Students on UC Campuses
Members of the UC Board of Regents Will Join Undocumented Students from Across UC Campuses as they Mobilize for First-Ever Opportunity for All Summit
WHAT: On Agosto 8th, undocumented student leaders from across University of California (UC) campuses will hold the first-ever Opportunity for All Summit to build power and share information and updates on next steps for the groundbreaking campaign.
In Mayo 2023, the UC Regents announced a historic plan to implement the Opportunity for All campaign, which would remove hiring restrictions for undocumented students who don’t have access to DACA or any other form of immigration status. The Regents are required to finalize their implementation plan by Noviembre 2023. UC Regent José Hernandez, UC Student Regent Merhawi Tesfai, and UC Student Regent Designate Josiah Beharry will join the summit to celebrate and discuss with students the historic decision to remove hiring restrictions for undocumented students across UC campuses.
“The Regents’ decision to move to implement Opportunity for All is a huge step toward ensuring equal access to opportunities for all students across the University of California system. This victory was the work of undocumented students who mobilized across campuses to ensure that we and our peers are no longer excluded from crucial educational employment opportunities solely because of our immigration status,” said Jeffry Umaña Muñoz, a UCLA undergraduate and USN leader. “We look forward to partnering with UC leadership to work to ensure that all students who want to apply for on-campus jobs have the opportunities and the resources we need to do so, regardless of our immigration status.”
Leading scholars of immigration and constitutional law from around the country have shown the University of California has the power under existing law to provide its undocumented students equal access to educational employment opportunities.
WHEN: Martes, Agosto 8, 2023 at 1:30 – 2:15 PM (PDT); Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/O4AllSummit
WHERE: Please register here for the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/O4AllSummit
OMS:
- UC Regent José Hernandez
- Merhawi Tesfai, UC Student Regent, UCLA
- Josiah Beharry, UC Student Regent Designate, UC Merced
- Alma Esperanza Villa Loma, UC Santa Cruz Graduate Student
- Jesus De La Mora, UC Merced Undergraduate Student
ANTECEDENTES ADICIONALES:
Debido a que las protecciones proporcionadas por DACA nunca han sido actualizadas, casi todos los jóvenes indocumentados que ahora ingresan a la educación superior no son elegibles para sus protecciones. En California, ya hay aproximadamente 44,326 estudiantes universitarios indocumentados que no son elegibles para DACA, y 27,000 estudiantes indocumentados que se gradúan de la escuela secundaria cada año. Los estudiantes indocumentados en California no pueden solicitar puestos de trabajo y otras oportunidades de empleo simplemente debido a su estatus. Esto incluye puestos de investigador y asistente de enseñanza para estudiantes graduados, trabajos de estudio de trabajo, pasantías pagadas y puestos de liderazgo estudiantil en organizaciones del campus, y otras oportunidades educativas y profesionales para una participación más profunda con sus instituciones.
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Acerca del CILP de la UCLA:
Founded in 2020, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law expands the law school’s role as a national leader in immigration law and policy, generating innovative ideas at the intersection of immigration scholarship and practice and serving as a hub for transforming those ideas into meaningful changes in immigration policy.
Acerca del Centro Laboral de la UCLA:
The UCLA Labor Center believes that a public university belongs to the people and should advance quality education and employment for all. Every day we bring together workers, students, faculty, and policymakers to address the most critical issues facing working people today. Our research, education, and policy work lifts industry standards, creates jobs that are good for communities, and strengthens immigrant rights, especially for students and youth. The UCLA Labor Center is housed in the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to the study, teaching, and discussion of labor and employment issues at UCLA.
Acerca de la Red dirigida por estudiantes indocumentados:
La misión de la Red dirigida por estudiantes indocumentados (USN) es crear una red estatal de jóvenes líderes inmigrantes para trabajar en la promoción de una agenda de reforma inmigrante. La USN se compromete a ampliar y defender los recursos de los estudiantes indocumentados, así como a construir comunidad y crear espacios seguros en los campus. En última instancia, la USN tiene como objetivo elevar las voces de los indocumentados y retratar con precisión la experiencia de los indocumentados.
Acerca del Dream Resource Center de la UCLA:
En Centro de Recursos del Sueño de la UCLA (DRC), un equipo de programas del Centro Laboral de la UCLA, forma a la próxima generación de líderes diversos -jóvenes inmigrantes y aliados con experiencias vividas- para que estén a la vanguardia de los movimientos por la justicia social y logren la equidad y la justicia para los trabajadores, las familias y las comunidades.
