Immigrant children’s access to education, assistance may be targets of state proposals

From Desert News, January 12, 2012

By Marjorie Cortez

Absent comprehensive federal immigration reform in 2012, advocates for immigrants are bracing for another wave of state legislative proposals in 2012 intended to restrict children’s access to education systems and public assistance programs.

Last year, legislation was introduced in more than a dozen states intended to ban immigrant children’s access to public colleges and universities as well as impose stricter verification requirements to attend public schools and qualify for public assistance programs such as food stamps.

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