UC considers hiring undocumented students despite federal ban.

The University of California is considering employing undocumented students who lack work permits, which could challenge a decades-old U.S. legal norm. The UC Regents voted to create a working group that will explore hiring such workers and advise the board on a decision, which it expects to make by the end of November. The move could change thousands of students' lives and invoke a bevy of court challenges. A group of students and progressive legal scholars have argued that the Immigration Reform and Control Act does not apply to states.