1986 redux as Obama courts Hispanic vote

The president's latest executive order extends limited legal rights to about half of the estimated 11 million illegal and undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

Back in 1986, the amnesty extended by the new omnibus immigration act that year was supposed to be counterbalanced by enhanced border controls.  Nearly three decades later, we have another 11 million illegal residents in the US.  Now they too are being slowly but surely legitimized... in the pursuit of votes by the badly bruised Democratic party.

Well, so it is and so be it.  Here's what it means for higher education:

http://chronicle.com/article/How-Obama-s-Action-on/150171/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en