July 25, 2010
On Immigration Fault Line, Arizona Colleges Struggle for Balance
Laura Segall for The Chronicle
Gregorio Montes de Oca, a recent graduate of Arizona State U., chained himself to the doors of the Arizona Capitol with other students to protest a new immigration law.
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Laura Segall for The Chronicle
Gregorio Montes de Oca, a recent graduate of Arizona State U., chained himself to the doors of the Arizona Capitol with other students to protest a new immigration law.
Tempe, Ariz.
Gregorio Montes de Oca's college career has been bookended by virulent debates over illegal immigration.
As a freshman, he joined other students in marching more than 10 miles from Arizona State University's campus here to the state Capitol, in Phoenix, to protest Proposition 300, a ballot measure to bar undocumented immigrants from qualifying for in-state tuition or receiving state financial aid. When the measure passed, with 72 percent of the vote, he was "really let down," but he
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