California is a “sanctuary” state with an estimated population of 40 million or so. We need to know, but we don’t, how many of the 40 million are not citizens of CA. The UC is a select institution, with a demand for admission far in excess of availability. The last time I
checked, UC didn’t have a citizenship question asked at the time of admission. Therefore, a Latino who is not a citizen could be given preferential treatment over an American-born Latino. Forget all considerations about immigration, etc. would this be fair or sound public policy?
There are several dimensions to this question, but the Legislative Latino Caucus, and the proponents on Prop 16 want proportional representation. To what demographic groups do you assign or allocate the sanctuary, “undocumented” population? As long as CA has sanctuary policies,
there might be an endless supply of new sanctuary residents who would make proportional representation an impossibility in a thousand lifetimes. This question can also be framed with respect to other groups, but I ask it the context of Latinos because that is the genesis of the
current debate.
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