Posted on 12/09/2016 1:54:16 PM PST by jazusamo
Comparing immigration enforcement to “fugitive slave laws,” professors at a taxpayer-funded university in south Florida are demanding that the school protect illegal aliens by creating a “sanctuary campus.” Students at colleges around the nation have made similar requests to protect undocumented classmates after president-elect Donald Trump vowed to increase deportations and reverse an Obama administration measure that shields those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
But the Florida professors are blazing the trail as the first faculty members to officially call for campus-wide sanctuary in the aftermath of the presidential election. They work at Florida International University (FIU), a public institution with 54,000 students, more than half of them Hispanic. One of the professors, Asia Eaton, teaches psychology and women’s and gender studies and the other, Jason Ritchie, anthropology. Dozens of other university staff members also signed the document making the sanctuary demand. It starts off like this: “Like many people in South Florida, we were caught off guard by the election.” It continues to state that Trump’s victory “laid bare the pervasive racism and sexism that have limited the life chances of too many Americans for too long. As a nation, we cannot continue to sweep these problems under the rug.”
The professors reveal that they are “deeply worried about the dangers of a Trump presidency” to the well-being of their diverse student body. They specifically mention an Obama amnesty measure known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which shields thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children “through no fault of their own” from deportation. In many cases, the so-called “dreamers” get driver’s licenses, work permits and discounted tuition at public universities such as FIU. During his campaign Trump said he would terminate DACA along with other Obama amnesty measures. The FIU professors point out that college presidents nationwide have determined that DACA is “both a moral imperative and a national necessity.” No further evidence is provided to substantiate that absurd claim, however.
As preposterous as this may sound, the demand gets even crazier when the professors compare the college sanctuary movement to safe havens that shielded individuals and institutions that refused to comply with fugitive slave laws in the 1800s. They refer to it as a tradition in the U.S. of providing safe-haven to vulnerable populations. “In that spirit, we call on our administration to declare Florida International University a sanctuary campus, develop a plan for protecting undocumented students, and refuse to cooperate with any efforts to identify, detain, or deport undocumented students, even if DACA is repealed or any other laws or policies change.” The document further alleges that students are “under attack” and they cannot remain silent.
Students—and some faculty—in dozens of colleges and universities around the country have asked that their fellow undocumented classmates be protected from immigration authorities, but administrations remain largely silent. In Illinois, many of the state’s public universities have been under pressure to declare themselves sanctuary campuses for illegal alien students but no official action has been taken. One of the state’s mainstream newspapers reported this week that the campuses have rejected the calls, instead outlining other (unofficial) ways they will offer protections. “The University of Illinois this week became the latest campus to dismiss the idea after thousands signed a petition asking school leaders to adopt the sanctuary label in an effort to protect undocumented students from being targeted for their citizenship status,” the article says. “A similar petition at Northwestern University also failed last month.”
Unrelated to this matter, but of interesting note is that two veteran FIU professors were convicted of spying for Cuba’s communist government over nearly three decades. The husband-and-wife duo, Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, got convicted in a Miami federal court in 2007. Carlos was sentenced to five years in prison for acting as an unregistered Cuban agent and Elsa got three years for harboring her husband’s illicit intelligence work and failing to report it to authorities.
Will they ship all the invaders to these campus? I think they should....put them in the safe room with the brownshirt snowflakes....the women.
Lets see how that works out for them.
So when these professors are in jail and the illegal aliens have been deported, what will they do; curse fate?
Sounds like a good plan to me...They should fire all the Profs also and hire illegal alien profs to teach.
So we are not a Nation of laws but a Nation of noodles?
Public University Professors need to go to a 5x minimum wage maximum salary. Classists they are.
Uh . . . the illegals are free to leave any time they want. The slaves were forced by law to remain slaves.
Big difference.
College professors is da craziest peoples.
There is no question but that public educational institutions should lose every penny of funding if they obstruct enforcement of immigration laws.
“Two veteran FIU professors were convicted of spying for Cuba’s communist government over nearly three decades. The husband-and-wife duo, Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, got convicted in a Miami federal court in 2007.”
And they were entwined with this Miami Cuban spy busted a few years earlier: Anna Montes— Anna got 25 years in the pen.
For 16 years, Ana Belen Montes spied for Cuba from increasingly responsible positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency. If Havana has ever run a higher level or more valuable mole inside the American defense establishment, that has never been revealed. When she was arrested in 2001, Montes was about the equivalent in rank of a colonel. She had access to sensitive compartmented intelligence. Strangely, for one so openly enamored of Fidel Castro, her superiors considered her one of the best Cuba analysts anywhere in government.
College professors and they are that stupid they believe declaring a campus a sanctuary over rides the law.
These are the morons that you are paying for an education!
“Leftists dreams...”
Perhaps. However, I believe this is only half of this issue is related to leftism / liberalism.
I believe it has more to do with “follow the money”.
The leftists/liberals/fascists that currently hold power at US universities / colleges are well paid, fat, comfortable, arrogant and corrupt. All of which is due to government funding, and a significant amount of that is due to illegal immigrant / Dreamer students. I believe these beard scratching professors know they are at the top of a ponzi scheme that relies on government funding of illegal alien students (federal grants & student loans). They don’t give a shite about illegal alien students. Rather they give a shite about the money the illegal alien students receive from the feds to pay their salaries.
If the US government were to boot those invaders back to Mexico, China or where ever they are from, these beard-scratching, worthless toads would lose their cushy jobs and have to find real work in the real world. Thus, the push to defend illegal aliens and thereby ensuring their tenured employment.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Exactly...That’s the doing of 0bama and his lapdogs, soon to be changing with President Trump.
Keep on going, keep that out front of every illegal, let them know that it’s time to self deport. Fools.
You know what I would love to see Trump do? Stick it up the ass of these universities, have them accountant for their high tuitions and then cut off their federal money when they LIE about it. The damage these universities are doing to the country is astronomical, with their leftist indoctrination polluting the work force and politics with these brainwashed leftist lunatics they graduate. I was talking to another Freeper about this the other day: This all started in the 1970s when the WW2/Korean war era professors starting retiring and were replaced by these hippy radicals who then went on to radicalize the students who in turn became professors and it’s been a never ending cycle ever since. Look how crazy they got the kids today - Crying like babbling fools because a career crook didn’t win the election, and then this garbage with safe spaces and blah blah...These are the kids who will end up in the media, politics, you name it, and they do tremendous damage to the country. Look how close we came to having the most corrupt politician in US history as President. It shouldn’t be like that, besides draining the swamp in Washington, these universities should be drained as well. I mean my God, they even got freakin’ terrorists as Professors now.
Sounds to me like Anna’s sentence wasn’t long enough, life seems appropriate barring execution.
Taxpayers demand funds withheld from said public universities if they try this. And, fire these professors. They can go teach in Mexico.
Deport the professors. I hear there’s some vacancies at Gitmo.
Bump!
I can think of only one word: Deportation.
5.56mm
Clearly, drugs on campus are not limited to the students.
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