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27 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 393 (2001-2002)
Postsecondary School Education Benefits for Undocumented Immigrants: Promises and Pitfalls

handle is hein.journals/ncjint27 and id is 401 raw text is: Postsecondary School Education Benefits for Undocumented Immigrants: Promises and Pitfalls Victor C. Romero* I. The Problem: Producing Highly Educated Farmworkers Carmen Medina is the Executive Director of the Adams County Delinquency Prevention Program, a state-sponsored initiative designed to attend to the needs of school-age children in south central Pennsylvania.' While perhaps best known as the site * Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University-Dickinson School of Law. J.D., 1992, University of Southern California; B.A., 1987, Swarthmore College. I would like to thank Tamesha Keel and Hiroshi Motomura for inviting me to participate in this Symposium, and my co-participants whose comments helped improve this piece; Matt Hughson and Gwenn McCollum for their excellent research assistance; Suzanne Benchoff (Director, Migrant and ESL Programs, Lincoln Intermediate Unit, New Oxford, PA), Pedro Cortes (Executive Director, Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs, PA), Melissa Landrau-Rodriguez (College Assistance Migrant Program, Pennsylvania State University), Carmen Medina (Executive Director of the Adams County Delinquency Prevention Program), Sharon Price (Aide to Pennsylvania State Representative Stephen R. Maitland), and Bob Reilly (Legislative Assistant to Congressman Todd R. Platts, R-PA), for lending me their expertise on this complex subject; my law school and university colleagues Stephanie Bjorklund, Dorie Evensen, Ken Gray, Jay Mootz, Bob Rains, Jane Rigler, and John Stuhr for their help with the education as work theory I espouse here; Peter Glenn for his generous funding of this and many other projects; and most especially, Michael Olivas, for his pioneering work in this field and his tireless advocacy of these issues. As always, I thank my wife, Corie, my son, Ryan, and my family in the Philippines for their untiring love and support. All errors that remain are mine alone. I More specifically, Ms. Medina runs a program called Generacion Diez: Generacion Diez is an after-school program in Adams County, Pennsylvania, that aims to address major problems affecting the growing migrant community in the area. Specifically, its goals are: 1) to reduce school failure and absences in migrant children; 2) to improve the children's study and social skills and promote social-emotional competence; 3) to provide migrant parents with instrumental and social support and improved access to social service resources; and 4) to increase parent-teacher involvement and cooperation. Intensive English as a Second Language (ESL) and social skills classes, home visits, and school collaboration are among the strategies employed by Generacion Diez to achieve these goals. The program was first implemented in October 1998, with the support and collaboration of the PA Department of Public Welfare's Office

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