University of California Delays Undocumented Worker Hiring Plan

University of California regents will miss a self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to issue a plan for hiring undocumented students at the university system’s 10 campuses.

Discussions about the topic have shown the working group studying the matter “how complex and delicate this issue is,” UC President Michael Drake said Thursday.

The regents launched the working group in May in response to a campaign by student organizers calling for the UC System to hire undocumented workers. That campaign was backed by a novel legal argument that a 1986 law prohibiting employers from hiring undocumented immigrants doesn’t apply to state government entities ...