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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: People walk towards Sather Gate on the U.C. Berkeley campus in Berkeley. Credit: Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The University of California on Thursday took a first step toward allowing the hiring of undocumented students for jobs across the 10-campus system, a move that follows months of pleas from those students. The action by the system’s board of regents Thursday does not immediately authorize the employment of undocumented students. Instead, UC plans to create a working group, proposed by President Michael V. Drake, that will spend the next six months considering the proposal.