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California college students without legal immigration status still cannot work at public colleges and universities after Gov. Gavin Newsom again that would have given them that right.
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Assembly Bill 713 would have adopted an untested legal theory that argues that a 1986 federal law barring employers from hiring workers in the country without authorization doesn’t apply to state governments. The logic? That 40-year-old law doesn’t mention state governments as a type of employer that cannot hire workers without proper status.
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