UCLA faculty experts advisory: U.S. to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants
President Obama has issued an executive order that would allow tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to obtain work permits and avoid deportation. UCLA has experts.
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, is a regularly cited expert on immigration and immigrants in the United States. He has written and spoken widely on a variety of immigration-related subjects, including trade, investment and migration between the U.S., Mexico and Latin America; the labor market for Latinos in the U.S.; and international political economy.
Media contact:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law, is an expert on immigration and citizenship law. He has written extensively on the subject, served as co-counsel on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress.
Media contact:
Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu
David Hernández, an assistant professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has studied the history of the detention of immigrants in the United States and how increases in such detentions are linked to the growth of racial inequality and xenophobia. He also researches international migration and Chicano and Latino politics and social movements.
Media contact:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Jorge Bravo, assistant professor of political science and an adviser at the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, is an expert on Mexican politics, Mexican society and Mexico–U.S. relations.
Media contacts:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Abel Valenzuela, an associate professor of urban planning and Chicano studies and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, is a regularly cited expert on immigration issues and day laborers. His he has written and spoken widely on the impact of immigration in urban neighborhoods and the experiences of minority groups in the labor market.
Media contacts:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu
Kelly Lytle Hernández, an associate professor of history and associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is an authority on the history and politics of immigration and emigration, particularly between the United States and Mexico. She is the author of "Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol."
Media contacts:
Ricardo Vazquez | 310-206-3986 | rvazquez@support.ucla.edu
Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu