Obama's Immigration Policy advisors...MALDEF Board member

[legalatina]

Professors Named to Senator Barack Obama's Immigration Policy Group

Professors of Law and Immigration Law Scholars Jennifer Chacón, Bill Ong Hing, and Kevin Johnson have been named to Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama's Immigration Policy Group. They will assist in formulating immigration law and policy positions for the Obama campaign.

Specialists in immigration law, Professors Chacón, Hing, and Johnson are the editors of ImmigrationProf Blog, a website that focuses on immigration and provides regularly updated permanent resources and links and daily news and information of interest to law professors in their scholarship and teaching. The site is included in the U.S. Library of Congress historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blogs.

Chacón, acting professor of law at UC Davis School of Law, teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Immigration Law. Her research interests center upon the nexus of criminal law and procedure and more general issues of citizenship. Commenting on her research, she says, "I hope to contribute to the scholarship that both examines and advances the quest to build more perfect democracies, protective of the rights of all people."

Hing, professor of law and Asian American studies at UC Davis, teaches immigration and Asian American history and directs the UC Davis School of Law Clinical Program, which includes the Immigration Law Clinic. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. Founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, Hing is on the board of directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center. His latest book is Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy from Cambridge University Press.


Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis School of Law. He has published extensively on immigration law and policy and civil rights. He has taught a wide array of classes at the School of Law, including Immigration Law, Latinos and Latinas and the Law, Refugee Law, and Critical Race Theory. Johnson serves as president of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California and on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. His latest book, Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws, is forthcoming in 2007 from New York University Press.NYU Press.

link: http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/news/news.aspx?id=1339

[Captainron]

His latest book, Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws, is forthcoming in 2007 from New York University Press.NYU Press.

Need we say any more?

[tinybobidaho]

What do you expect from a man who doesn't even want to secure our borders?

[Populist]

All open border, pro-amnesty advocates I assume. The American working class be damned.

[legalatina]

Populist...you are absolutely right....all three are OBL's...no question about it.
Not one supports immigration policies that benefit American citizens, our jobs, our way of life. Not a one. That is the REAL Obama on immigration.

[PhredE]

I suspect the only way the opinions of those people (and even people like those people) will ever change....
is when they are displaced from high paying career positions (as opposed to 'embracing diversity' with the arrival of another 'visiting professor/scholar' from <anywhereland>...it's one thing to work alongside a newly-arrived person from another country, but is quite another to sacrifice your job to a person from outside...)

[legalatina]

The ACLU, Jennfier Chacon...Obama's Immigration (illegal alien support) advisor.......

Hastings Immigration Symposium

Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal's 6th Annual Symposium is on CONFRONTING HIDDEN BORDERS: IMMIGRATION AND UNITING COMMUNITIES OF COLOR THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008 3:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.

Location: University of California, Hastings College of the Law 200 McAllister Street Alumni Resource Center San Francisco, California

Featured Speakers:

Eva Paterson, President, Equal Justice Society
Lucas Guttentag, Founder of Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union
Bill Ong Hing, Founder of Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Professor, U.C. Davis
Jennifer Chacón, Professor of Immigration and Criminal Law, U.C. Davis

[cvangel]

I'm SOOOO sick of these people. I hope Lou and others profile cases like this about the candidates and their choices.

[WorriedAmerican]

I'm SOOOO sick of these people. I hope Lou and others profile cases like this about the candidates and their choices.

I've only heard one good reason to "open the flood gates." That's all the people who would be paying into our depleting Social Security. Then we could say Amnesty people have to be 72 to retire! LOL

But it still doesn't make up for the fleecing of America that will happen. I wish we could cut off ALL immigration......

I say each state should vote on it seperately. If our government gets involved we will have all those laws we really don't want. BUT, if the state votes them in, they don't get any Federal monies period.

[Lone_Patriot]

UC Davis is very very anti American anyway. but it gives America a chance to see where husein's loyalities lie.