Ruben Rumbaut

Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine

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Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine and author of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

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Immigration will be back on the front burner next week on Capitol Hill, with President Bush urging what he calls "comprehensive reform."  But even an unlikely consensus on new policies…

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Immigration will be back on the front burner next week on Capitol Hill, with President Bush urging what he calls "comprehensive reform."  But even an unlikely consensus on new policies…

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