Focus on American Universities: Fighting for DACA Dreamers and Coping With COVID-19
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a very special episode of Talking Feds, a roundtable that brings together prominent |
| 0:13.2 | former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important |
| 0:18.6 | legal topics of the day. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Harry Littman. |
| 0:22.4 | We're going to be discussing the Supreme Court case involving the Trump administration's |
| 0:27.1 | attempt to rescind DACA, the Obama-era policy that allows undocumented young adults, dreamers, |
| 0:35.7 | who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation. |
| 0:41.9 | But it's our great good fortune to have for this discussion the presidents of three of |
| 0:47.1 | the countries and the world's leading universities, whom as you'll hear have a keen interest |
| 0:52.9 | in DACA. |
| 0:54.5 | But as we tape, the country is in full coronavirus crisis. |
| 1:00.0 | The United States has now passed 35,000 cases and 500 deaths with cases continuing to |
| 1:07.1 | double every two to three days and New York having more deaths per capita than Italy. |
| 1:13.5 | So I want first to take the valuable opportunity to ask the leaders of three large, diverse |
| 1:19.7 | and creative communities how they are approaching the virus and then move on to discussion of DACA. |
| 1:26.5 | So let me introduce our guests and then ask them to discuss the virus for a few minutes |
| 1:31.8 | before turning back to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:35.1 | We have in alphabetical order or from East to West first, Chris Icegruber, who has served |
| 1:42.5 | as Princeton University's 20th president since July 2013. |
| 1:48.1 | He previously was Princeton's provost for nine years, beginning in 2004, after joining |
| 1:54.5 | the Princeton faculty in 2001 as the director of the program in law and public affairs |
| 2:01.1 | where we met. |
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