George Washington U. Students March, Demanding ‘Sanctuary Campus’
“would require GW to instate policies aimed at limiting the University’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement”
The protest was organized by a socialist group. What a surprise.
The GW Hatchet reports:
Students march through campus, renewing demands to declare GW ‘sanctuary campus’
About 40 students marched through campus Thursday evening, calling on University President Ellen Granberg to declare GW a sanctuary campus and resist cooperation with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
The protest, organized by Socialist Action Initiative, started outside of Kogan Plaza on H Street, with protesters marching to Granberg’s F Street House and then the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, protesting the surge of National Guard troops on campus and demanding Granberg stand up to the Trump administration. Throughout the demonstration — which featured a heavy Metropolitan Police Department and GW Police Department presence — students also renewed previous demands for Granberg to declare GW a sanctuary campus, which would require GW to instate policies aimed at limiting the University’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
The group throughout the protest reiterated their six demands for officials, which they first began asking for in April, including banning federal law enforcement from campus, refusing compliance with the Trump administration, defending free speech and academic freedom, providing legal and financial support to those at risk of deportation, extending aid and scholarship to D.C. Public Schools students and committing to including greater student, staff and faculty input on major decisions.
About 10 National Guard troops, which students have reported seeing more regularly throughout campus in the last week, showed up in Kogan at the start of the protest, though they left after a speaker in the crowd mentioned the presence of National Guard troops in the city.
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40 students? Give me a break. Take your demands and stick them where the sun don’t shine.
Has anyone mentioned to them that what they want is both illegal and immoral? Do they care?
None of their demands seem to be illegal. Which laws do you think they violate?
George WashingtonCHAZ University.There you go.
Enjoy your new educational experience — nasty, brutish, and short.
Dear Students
Get back to class or withdraw.
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Dean T G Grizzly
This is why I, a GW law grad, don’t donate to GW. With the exception of one or two professional schools, GW is, at best, a safety school for Bernie Sanders wanna be’s. DC needs a good university, but GW isn’t it. Nor are any of the other existing DC colleges and universities. They are too busy defrauding their students to educate anyone.
Not to mention enriching their teachers and admins almost all democrats.
Schools that become sanctuary campuses should be denied federal money and the students should be denied student loans.
Fair enough. At least for non-state colleges. State colleges are trickier, because states have a tenth amendment right to refuse cooperation with the feds, and while Congress may try to persuade them to cooperate it can’t compel them, while the president is even more restricted.
A school may have a right to declare itself a sanctuary school, but it does have a right to interfere with federal officials enforcing federal law. I believe the supremacy clause trumps the 10th Amendment.
Correction: it does not have a right to interfere …
No, the supremacy clause does NOT trump the 10th amendment. How could you even think it does?
But of course no school has a right to interfere with law enforcement of any kind. Nor does any government entity. That’s not what “sanctuary” means, and in the four decades or more that “sanctuary” jurisdictions have existed none has ever done that.
“Sanctuary” means refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, not interfering with it. And states and their subdivisions do have the constitutional right to do that. The administration may not punish them in any way for it, not even by cutting $1 from them. Congress may cut their funding as a means to persuade them, but it must do so explicitly, and the cut must be small enough that it doesn’t cross the line from persuasion to compulsion.
Perhaps those students need to be acquainted with the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. On the other hand, if you want a sanctuary campus, then don’t expect any incoming federal dollars resulting in a flight of professors and higher tuition – I’m sure that lots of people will be real pleased with that.