SACRAMENTO: The purpose of the McGeorge School of Law’s Sikh-American Law Students Association (SALSA) is to reach out to Sikh youth in northern California and encourage them to consider the field of law; to provide a source of specialized knowledge and skill to the McGeorge Community; to provide tuition scholarships to law students who are, or plan to be, active within the Sikh communities to arrange social and other activities, such as open houses and special events, which focus on the Sikh communities to identify and try to meet their legal needs.
SALSA was first founded and chartered in October 1990 by Kulwinder Singh. In December 1990, Pacific International Law Society (PILS) and SALSA sponsored a lecture on EEC Law and International Probate by Max Henri Cadet, a prominent Sacramento attorney who has special ties to the Sikh community. In November 1991, SALSA presented a lecture on Immigration Law where UOP Professor Bruce LaBrack, a noted scholar on the Sikh communities of northern California, spoke about the history of Sikh immigration and discrimination. As part of an Immigration Law forum, the former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Reagan Administration, Alan Nelson, now the leader of an immigration reform organization, spoke about the needs for tighter enforcement and interdiction of illegal alien immigration,
In its third year, this 1992-93 academic year, SALSA will hold several meetings with speakers about immigration law, international trade, and other subjects, We hope that the PILS members and professors and students of the Spring Semester’s Immigration and Nationality Law class will attend along with all other interested persons within the McGeorge Community.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 9, 1992
