BOULDER — Linda Chavez — one of three finalists for the donor-funded position of visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado — outlined her views on immigration at a campus presentation Monday, saying she is a proponent for more legal pathways to citizenship.
While liberals tend to favor open-door policies, Chavez said, conservatives take a more market-based approach and want guest-worker programs to help fill jobs in high-tech science, technology, engineering and math fields, as well as low-skilled labor markets such as agriculture.
“I fall a little outside of that view and think that having more permanent residents is better because I believe citizenship is so important,” she told the audience.
Chavez — a White House public liaison and director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Ronald Reagan — is the only finalist for the position who has ties to Boulder. She graduated from CU in 1970 and lives in Boulder now.
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