Undocumented immigration has become one of our day's premier social issues. As a companion to the new media documentary "Undocumented Students and & the DREAM Act," available at www.undocstudents.com, this blog focuses on a subset of individual's affected by current immigration policy: undocumented students.
Under current law, undocumented students face a kind of legal purgatory. Their immigration status does not prohibit access to higher education; however, in many states it enjoins them from receiving state financial aid, in-state tuition, and formal employment. Proposed legislation known as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, would allow these students to earn and use their education as legal residents.
Channing Turner studies digital media and journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. For the past eight months, he has reported extensively on issues of immigration and the undocumented in Phoenix, Arizona, culminating in a new media documentary on undocumented students.
Channing has professional experience working for The Arizona Republic and the Washington Post, covering beats from breaking news to editorial multimedia. This summer, Channing has accepted a reporting internship at Main Justice, a publication focused on the Department of Justice and federal courts.
