What kind of impact will the immigrant boycott have?

By Thomas Fudge / Science and Technology Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published May 1, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

We speak to Hans Johnson with the PPIC to get some statistics on California's illegal immigration population. Tom Fudge also talks to UCSD Professor Jorge Mariscal about yesterday's boycott for immig

Hans Johnson with the PPIC joins Tom to provide some statistics on California's illegal immigration population. Also UCSD Professor Jorge Mariscal talks about yesterday's boycott for immigrant rights, and to get his thoughts on the current Latino social movement. James Goldsborough also talks about sensible immigration reform.

Guests:

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Hans Johnson . Research Fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California. He is the lead researcher on a recent PPIC report about Illegal Immigration.
Jorge Mariscal , director of the Chicano Studies Program at UC San Diego. His latest book is Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement.
James Goldsborough . Former columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is now a columnist for VoiceofSanDiego.org.