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The UC governing board on Thursday punted a decision of whether to allow immigrant students without legal status to apply for jobs on its 10 campuses.

The Undocumented Student-Led Network announced its plan to go on hunger strike at a press conference Tuesday, in the midst of this week’s UC Board of Regents meetings.

Hundreds of students marched from Wilson Plaza to Murphy Hall and Kerckhoff Hall, calling for the UC Board of Regents to finalize an implementation plan allowing the UC to hire all students regardless of their immigration status.

UC Regents created a working group that will determine how best to open campus jobs to students without work authorization.

This post was updated May 18 at 10:23 p.m. Advocacy groups calling for the UC to hire students without legal status and fairly compensate union-affiliated workers held protests outside the University of California Board of Regents meeting Wednesday at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center.  Opportunity for All, a UC-wide student organization campaigning for equal access to employment and resources for students without legal status, held a rally that featured faculty and student speeches and a march to the Luskin Conference Center to form a picket line.