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Should Colleges Admit Students Based on Race? Why Justice Sonia Sotomayor Still Thinks So

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 01:56 PM PDT

Affirmative action in college admissions may be on its last legs, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor defended the race-based program this morning on ABC's This Week. "Look, we have legacy admissions—if your parents or your grandparents have been to that school, they're going to give you an advantage in getting into the school," the justice pointed out to host George Stephanopoulos. In the past Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, has credited race-based programs in the 1970s for her rise from a Bronx public housing project to Princeton University and Yale Law School. When the Court upheld Michigan's ban on affirmative action in April, she delivered an impassioned dissent that was labeled too emotional by conservative media outlets.

Few immediate consequences for child immigrants

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 09:34 AM PDT

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. The chief reasons are an overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children's welfare, an Associated Press investigation finds. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of immigrant children fleeing poverty and violence in Central America to cross alone into the United States can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences.

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