Archive for: immigration

 

UT Leaders Respond to White House Travel Ban

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After the White House temporarily banned citizens of seven countries from entering the United States last Friday, UT leaders and the community responded with...

 
 

Student Group’s Illegal Immigration Game Draws Outcry [Updated]

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Update: On Tuesday morning, the Young Conservatives of Texas’ chairman, Lorenzo Garcia, released a statement announcing the event is canceled. He cited safety...

 
 

Condoleezza Rice Discusses Iraq War on the Forty Acres

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a frank question last night while addressing a full house at the LBJ Library’s Lady Bird Auditorium. Joshua...

 
 
The Law of the Land

Texas Lawmakers Seek Ban on In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants

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More than a decade ago, Texas became the first state to pass a law providing in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. The law (House Bill 1403) passed in a...

 
 

Higher Ed Makes Headlines at Conference on the Forty Acres

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UT’s campus became the epicenter of Texas public policy debates over the weekend as the Forty Acres hosted the second-annual Texas Tribune Festival. The conference—the...

 
 

UT ‘Dreamers’ Celebrate New Immigration Policy

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Editor’s Note: The mission of The Alcalde and the Texas Exes is to keep alumni and friends informed about The University of Texas. But this article on a campus...

 
 

Who Pays In-State Tuition at UT?

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Texas governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry has recently drawn fire from a conservative student group at his alma mater, Texas A&M, for his continued...

 
 

Feature

The Ties That Blind

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Until I was a teenager, I thought the story of my grandfather’s coming to the United States to be another hardworking immigrant story. It went something like this:...

 
 
 
 
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