Dean Johnson Comments on Immigration Case for Bee

Dean Kevin R. Johnson commented for the Sacramento Bee on the case of an undocumented immigrant student who was granted a temporary stay of deportation.   The stay came after the woman, UC Davis student Mandeep Chahal, engaged in an online campaign for support using social media and also appealed to politicians including President Obama.

The stay "is fairly unusual, and it happened because political action and publicity worked to stay the deportation," said Dean Johnson.  He also questioned why the government would want to deport Chahal and other undocumented college students. "We're talking about tens of thousands of kids nationally in this situation who aren't criminal aliens but upstanding residents."

Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.