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Dreamers communities stand to lose in DACA bargain

November 30, 2017

As Congress nears a deadline next week to approve a new budget or budget extension, the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hangs in the balance. Shannon Gleeson, a Cornell University professor of labor relations and an expert on immigrant labor, has been working on a three-year long collaborative project to study how the DACA policy is implemented at the local level in Houston, New York City, San Francisco and San Jose.

Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics and Business
Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law & History at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Maria Lorena Cook