UC-San Francisco Formally Admits School’s First Undocumented Medical Student
On Friday, UC-San Francisco's medical school formally admitted Jirayut "New" Latthivongskorn, an undocumented resident whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Thailand at age nine. Latthivongskorn is the school's first undocumented medical student, and he hopes to complete his residency in the U.S., which will depend on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals law and other immigration policy changes.
- "UCSF's First Undocumented Medical Student Begins Training" (Kim, "State of Health," KQED, 9/8).