Some Catholic Universities Working to Shield Illegal Immigrant Students From ICE
“Fordham University has created a web page that advises students on how to handle encounters with ICE officials”
This is probably not going to make much of a difference. ICE seems different this time around. They are not playing.
Campus Reform reports:
Catholic universities reaffirm support for illegal alien students amid Trump admin deportation efforts
As the Trump administration continues to enforce immigration law, some Catholic universities are working to shield illegal alien students from federal authorities such as those from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Two notable examples include Fordham University in New York and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, as reported by Detroit Catholic.
To assist illegal alien students, Fordham University has created a web page that advises students on how to handle encounters with ICE officials—encouraging them to call the school’s public safety workers when applicable.
The web page informs such students that if necessary, “Fordham will provide you with support, including connecting you with pro-bono legal consultation to assist you in evaluating any given emergency.”
The school has also made clear its intent to limit the presence of immigration enforcers, stressing that, “Unless law enforcement officers are responding to a lawful request, Public Safety will not allow them on campus, nor share any student or employee information with them.”
Fordham previously issued similar guidance for interaction with immigration officers earlier this year as part of its commitment to “maintaining safe and secure campuses for every member of our community.”
In April, Fordham President Tania Tetlow sent an email to students, teachers, and administrators bemoaning the “distress” and “anxiety” caused by immigration enforcement efforts, alleging that the administration had taken away students’ visas on multiple occasions “without explanation and without notice.”
As a Catholic university, Fordham frames its efforts as “grounded in the Jesuit tradition of being people for others,” repeatedly emphasizing that it aims to protect illegal alien students as part of its longstanding commitments to “serve immigrants and their families.”
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Not allow them on campus. I wait with bated breath to see how that works out for you.
Why would it not? The campus is private property. Law enforcement can’t just traipse onto private property without a warrant. Any property owner is free to tell them they’re not allowed in.
If they want in they’ll have to bring a proper warrant, signed by an Article 3 judge on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
ICE can get warrants. That is not a big obstacle.
Fine, then let them do so. So far they haven’t been bothering with those, and until they do the universities have every right to keep them out, just like any other property owner. If they can’t come into your house without a warrant, they can’t come into a university either. Not unless the property owner invites them.
None of the universities have said one word to suggest they would not allow a judicial warrant to be served.
I don’t see anything to object to in the universities’ statements. This is America, where no one is required to agree with the government’s policies, or to assist the government in carrying them out. If ICE show up with a warrant naming a specific person to be arrested, and issued by a real judge based on an oath or affirmation that there is probable cause to believe that person to be on the campus, and to be someone subject to arrest, then they have to let them in. Otherwise they don’t.
And in all cases they are entitled to offer the arrestees legal and other advice and assistance in fighting their cases.
And there he is where he can ALWAYS be found… on the wrong side of every issue.
What part of illegal don’t you understand…but as you stated you have no problem with institutions that receive a lot of federal funds hiding and harboring people who are breaking the law… what a pathetic leftist you are …. If it was any issue that remotely support conservative values or was pro America you would be screaming …. But muh .. the law!
What a pathetic liar you are. YOU are the reason this forum is becoming a toxic soul-destroying swamp. You and your disgusting buddies who don’t give a flying crap about the truth, or about right and wrong, and you dare to call yourselves conservatives. You taint the atmosphere. You lie and lie and lie and lie and lie. The world would be a far better place without you. Certainly this forum would be.
What part of PRIVATE PROPERTY do you not understand? If you think ICE should be allowed to break into private property then you are on the side of evil and ILLEGALITY. The universities are not breaking the law; but you are advocating that ICE should break the law, which would make its agents more illegal than the immigrants they are chasing.
Nice to see the Catholic universities sticking to that “Render unto Caesar” bit.
“This society [the Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”
-John Adams (letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1816)
Those universities must receive the Harvard treatment. Since they have acknowledged that they are shielding illegals, there should be a way to invade in force and remove those illegals. What if there were bomb threats requiring a through search?
The Catholic Church is part of the problem here. The Church is pro-migration, which is understandable, given that they are a global institution. Catholic Charities is one of the prime actors in funneling migrants into the US with USAID dollars. Catholicism may also be a problem with some SCOTUS Justices, particularly Barrett.
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