Undocumented Immigrant Gets Law Degree; Wants Right to Be Unemployed Like Classmates

Recently, the LA Times ran a sympathetic piece on Luis Perez, an undocumented illegal immigrant who recently graduated from UCLA Law School:

Today, at age 29, Luis Perez has the right to call himself a juris doctor. But he can't yet call himself an American. In fact, because he's an undocumented immigrant, it will take an act of Congress to change that. But that hasn't stopped him from trying.

Regardless of how one feels about illegal immigration, it's ridiculous that UCLA would admit someone not even eligible to join the bar after graduation. One would think there was a real meaning behind the character and fitness screening that every law applicant goes through. Just as it would be negligent to let convicted felons pay to gain a law degree (who, likewise, need federal action to practice law in most states) - especially with public backing - it's negligent to let someone not eligible to work post-graduation gain a professional degree.

The great hope for Perez, and for thousands of others like him, is the Dream Act, a bill that would grant a path to legal residency for undocumented immigrants who graduate from college or serve honorably in the military.
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The Dream Act would be another intelligent investment in our collective future. We'd get even more people like Perez, because the Dream Act would reward young people for making the choices he's made since the was 8: choosing education over ignorance, service over apathy.

Um...what about the 1/3 of law graduates every year (likely 16,000 every year) who have chosen "education over ignorance" and "service over apathy" and wind up unemployed and deeply indebted as a result?

We have to stop this ridiculous idea that anyone can do anything they want because they work hard and want it. Such absurdities only lead to misery. This individual never should have been admitted to law school (especially a public one) and we should not change the laws to reward people who think reckless education (like paying for a law degree when it would take an unprecedented act of Congress to practice law) is a good idea.