Professor Hing Publishes Immigration Essay in Huffington Post
Professor Emeritus Bill Ong Hing has published an essay in the Huffington Post on the ways the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 impacted U.S. immigration policies.
"Because the 9/11 hijackers were foreign-born, cracking down on noncitizens -- especially those who looked like or were of the same religion as the hijackers -- made sense to some," wrote Professor Hing. "But the crackdown apprehended no terrorists. By falling for the temptation of profiling, we actually sacrificed the fundamental values and principles of openness and inclusion that we ought to have been guarding."
Bill Ong Hing is recognized nationally as an immigration law and community lawyering expert. He is the founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco.