With the election of Donald Trump, the federal government and both local and educational authorities are on a collision course over immigration policies. Many states and cities have reaffirmed that they will oppose any deportation efforts, including another recent chest-pounding interview by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. It is likely that the federal government will squeeze federal funding for sanctuary states and cities, though such efforts can trigger “commandeering” and other legal challenges. Universities may be in a more precarious position, but some like the Los Rios Community College District in California are doubling down on plans to oppose any federal enforcement efforts.
Various university and college presidents have reaffirmed their support for undocumented students and staff, including most recently Fordham University President Tania Tetlow. However, the Los Rios Community College District seems to have laid out a more concrete plan to oppose federal enforcement, a plan that was referenced in a January 28 email.
The District covers American River College, Cosumnes River College, Folsom Lake College, and Sacramento City College.
The email states that “[t]here have been reports all over the country of increased immigration raids in association with Executive Orders tied to immigration enforcement.” It seeks to address the “[f]ear … widespread throughout the undocumented and ally communities about their safety and the safety of their families and loved ones.”
Just after Trump’s election, Los Rios published a “Compact in Support of Undocumented and DACA Students and Employees,” including the possible concealment of immigration status.
Here are the eight commitments:
Los Rios will do everything in its power to fight for the rights of our immigrant and undocumented students and employees and will always do everything possible to uphold the values of our institutions.
Los Rios stands with state and local leaders who have pledged to do everything possible to defend the rights and protections of immigrant and undocumented Californians.
Los Rios commits to advocating for a permanent legislative solution to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and a pathway to citizenship for our immigrant communities.
Los Rios will immediately provide additional resources to our Undocumented Resource Centers.
The Los Rios Police reaffirms its commitment to not participate in immigration-related activities, including arresting and/or detaining students, consistent with organizational values and state law.
Los Rios will protect students’ rights and confidentiality and will not share the immigration status of students or employees.
Los Rios, its colleges, and partners will do a full review of internal policies and regulations to ensure that we are doing everything possible to protect the rights of students and employees.
The Los Rios Colleges Foundation will create Dream Center Funds with resources for each college, administered by the Undocumented Resource Center on each campus. The Foundation will encourage other community members, employees, and private and corporate funders to give support to undocumented students to help remove critical barriers to their success, such as paying for DACA renewal fees, legal fees, purchasing laptops, and additional resources.
Number 6 is particularly interesting in promising an active role to conceal or withhold immigration status information.
We have been down this road before. Schools previously fought this battle over efforts to bar military recruiters. While I have been a vocal supporter of gay rights on many fronts, I was one of those who opposed the litigation that my law school joined. At the time, I stated that it was not only a clear loser on the law but also represented a type of hypocrisy: We insist that we cannot allow discrimination, but if money is at stake, we will allow it.
In Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc., 547 U.S. 47 (2006), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the federal government, under the Solomon Amendment, could constitutionally withhold funding from universities if they barred military recruiters from interviewing students. The Solomon Amendment denied federal funding to an institution of higher education that “has a policy or practice … that either prohibits, or in effect prevents” the military “from gaining access to campuses, or access to students … on campuses, for purposes of military recruiting in a manner that is at least equal in quality and scope to the access to campuses and to students that is provided to any other employer.” 10 U. S. C. A. §983(b) (Supp. 2005).
It is easier to limit funds for universities, but it can still raise constitutional problems from free speech to associational rights.
In Rumsfeld v. FAIR, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that such laws could run afoul of the unconstitutional conditions doctrine “if Congress could not directly require universities to provide military recruiters equal access to their students.” He then added:
“This case does not require us to determine when a condition placed on university funding goes beyond the ‘reasonable’ choice offered in Grove City and becomes an unconstitutional condition. It is clear that a funding condition cannot be unconstitutional if it could be constitutionally imposed directly. See Speiser v. Randall, 357 U. S. 513, 526 (1958). Because the First Amendment would not prevent Congress from directly imposing the Solomon Amendment’s access requirement, the statute does not place an unconstitutional condition on the receipt of federal funds.
The Solomon Amendment neither limits what law schools may say nor requires them to say anything. Law schools remain free under the statute to express whatever views they may have on the military’s congressionally mandated employment policy, all the while retaining eligibility for federal funds. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 25 (Solicitor General acknowledging that law schools “could put signs on the bulletin board next to the door, they could engage in speech, they could help organize student protests”). As a general matter, the Solomon Amendment regulates conduct, not speech. It affects what law schools must do—afford equal access to military recruiters—not what they may or may not say.”
The coming challenges could raise the question left open in Rumsfeld v. FAIR. However, the question is whether universities, particularly state institutions, want to go down this road of confrontation rather than cooperation.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
To repeat an observation that’s been making the rounds, former President Biden claimed that he needed more funding, Republican approval on “immigration reform” that would have still allowed in a staggering amount of illegal immigration, and former VP Kamala Harris to find the “root causes” to fix the border crisis.
As soon as Trump was elected and deportations began, border encounters with illegal aliens went way down.
Under former President Joe Biden, border encounters went down from 40,000 a week, to 20,000 in the last week of his term, to 7,000 under President Donald Trump’s first week in office.
Deporting illegal aliens is a deterrent to illegal immigration, and a motivation to go through the legal immigration process. It didn’t require new laws, just that the United States enforce existing laws. It was not truthful that the border crisis was the fault of Republicans for not green lighting Democrats’ proposed bills that would have allowed illegal immigration to continue.
This is what governance looks like.
Presidents aren’t elected to do what’s best for non citizens; their job is to do what’s best for the citizens of the United States.
Karen the Border encounter numbers I heard reported were now in the low hundreds per week.
Also border encounters went down under Biden, because immediate after the election Trump told Mexican president Sheinbaum to shut the border down or face tarriffs. She moved the Mexican Army to the US border in November and Radically reduced border Crossings.
That was not done by Biden that was done by Trump.
Though in the last half of 2024 when it was clear to democrats that immigration could cost them the election, Biden did significantly cut border crossings.
Every country in the world, including Mexico, has federal immigration law. Any man, woman, or family who sneaks in and tries to live there without going through the federal immigration process is deported. Why do Democrats claim it’s evil if the US enforces immigration law like all countries?
For those who claim that illegal aliens commit less crimes than citizens, I would say the following. That statement is based off a 2017 study, long before millions of aliens flowed across Biden’s open border. The CA prison system does not note immigration status. CA is a sanctuary state with a very high population of illegal aliens. The data in that study would be highly suspect for excluding information on states with the highest illegal immigration data. In addition, “illegal immigrants” is a wide umbrella term. It includes visa overstays, who would generally not break further laws, as well as the large number of conservative, Catholic Latinos who work 3 jobs, and Asian immigrants whose culture statistically favors a conservative lifestyle. The most common law broken by illegal immigrants is identify theft, which is often not tracked. Many engage in identity theft to work in the US while here illegally. It’s not a violent crime, but it’s still a crime with consequences. Also among that umbrella are the criminals who come in – the gangs like Tren de Aragua, cartel members, sex traffickers, pedophile sex traffickers, and all the other oppressors who slip in with the oppressed. It doesn’t matter to their victims if most illegal immigrants aren’t violent criminals. What happened to the victims should never have occurred, because those criminals were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. If it was you, or your loved one, who was raped, murdered, or killed in a car accident, by someone who wasn’t supposed to be here, would it be a comfort to know many other illegals aren’t criminal? If immigration law was enforced, then that victim would still be here, healthy and whole.
Further, California prisons do not keep track of immigration status. Those figures aren’t reported, so it seems unclear how crime can be tracked in the illegal alien community without that data. Identity theft is also rarely tracked. You get your identity stolen, report it, and spend months trying to be made whole. The person who stole your identity is rarely caught. Many illegal immigrants engage in identity theft to work in the US. If identity theft was counted, and if all states ascertained and reported immigration status for criminal convictions, then that crime statistic might show a different picture.
https://cis.org/Parsing-Immigration-Policy/Identity-Fraud-Illegal-Aliens-Ignored-Federal-Government
“The Earnings Suspense File is an accounting tally kept by the Social Security Administration of wages reported on W-2 forms, where the information does not match the SSA’s records. Weingarten said some of these mismatches are legitimate, such as in the case of a name change, but the tenfold increase in the total wages recorded in the file is in large part due to the explosion of the number of illegal aliens in the U.S., many of whom are working on the books with SSNs that are not their own.
Weingarten says, “Government agencies not only know that there is a substantial amount of identity fraud going on in the workplace, but they want to turn the other way on it. They believe they have an incentive to turn the other way on it.” Federal officials, including members of Congress, Weingarten says, argue that this identity theft is actually beneficial because illegal immigrants contribute to federal tax revenue. Meanwhile, they ignore the American citizens – typically Hispanics or children, or both – who are victims of this identity fraud by illegal aliens.”
* Professor, it’s time to for the USA to RIP. Documenting the ignorance that killed it doesn’t matter either. Do not have children. Let the meek inherit the earth. The meek are the lowly.
Calif prop 98 , education is a doozy. They’re delaying paying their bills until the future. Get it while it’s hot. What an ignorant state legislature. Tennessee has passed vouchers. The devil laid a trap for all those religious folk who never really cared about the Constitution and they did it by grinning up the devil.
RIP adios amigos e Amigas.
We aren’t the lucky ones. You know what it’s like? A family prepared a meager meal and unexpected guests showed up. The cook divided the food into a few bites portions until they all starved.
Nope, there’s no one to see about it.
* Tennessee just passed vouchers in education.
Marsha Blackburn, are you ready for——>
Louis Farrakkan and the nation of Islam public school schools. Yee ha!
The Sikhs public schools
Brahman public schools
Buddha’s best education
The ayotollah’s finest public schools
Yeshiva Albert Einstein public schools
The Palestinian pure public schools
Can you provide a definition of woman? No, senator, I can’t. 😂 😂
* For those having no children your concern might be taxes. It’s like a cake and each of these self interested groups will take a piece. As more guests arrive the pieces get smaller.
At that point deleting unnecessary grade levels. Start with grades 11 and 12 and out at 16 years old. Delete CCs except 2 year vocational. That’ll be a savings.
You’re on the luge ride to 3rd world.
* cut next to grade 8 and get right back to the Bible, reading, writing and ciphering. Like good old days. No compulsory education. God if you want or plow a field.
Good BYE
ATS there might be some disruption – but there is no tax issue.
This just moves existing taxes from public schools to private schools FOLLOWING THE STUDENTS.
If you choose to leave your student in public schools there education dollowrs from School taxes and state funding got to the local public school.
If you send your child to a private school – the public school has one less child to educate and gets funded by slightly less because it is educating fewer children.
Public schools have an incentive to do a better job – in order to keep current funding.
ATS – I am perfectly fine with all of that.
But what I ACTUALLY expect is LOTS of private schools competing to better educate students for the least possible cost.
I am viewing with amusement, how the Libtards are incensed that the Smart Set is blaming DEI for the chopper-jet crash, and the LA fires. But isn’t that kinda like them blaming guns every time there is a shooting??? Like they say, insouciance for the goose. . . 🙂
* the chopper crash was Amos steak.
blaming guns make even LESS sense.
Who was the pilot of the helicopter?
Yo mama
Captain Sullie Sullenberger summed up Trump’s response to the crash very succinctly with 3 words when asked for his opinion:
“Not surprised. Disgusted”
^ Paid DNC troll. Ignore. ^
Why is this fool’s greatest desire to be unhappy, nay, miserable?
Go. Go to greener pastures where idiots will praise your preposterous rubbish.
Don’t worry. Be happy.
Thinks he’s striking a blow for international communism, when in reality he just blows.
“Captain Lucky”
Nothing more, nothing less.
Sullie “Captain Lucky” Sullenberger
Sullenberger is a real hero. That does not make him competent politically.
Regardless, this accident has a CAUSE – probably multiple cases, It is very close to certain that the chopper was too high,
That would be a failure on the part of the military. And with a high probability of pilot error.
In this case while the supervising pilot was highly skilled – the error is near certain that of the pilot being checked.
trump is quite the disgusting piece of human flesh isn’t he?
“What a horrible, pathetic, little man,” one said of the president blaming DEI efforts for the deadly crash.
Is everything on this planet good because of him and if its bad it can’t be because of him?
Pathetic is right.
People died and he wants to blame diversity. Sick
^ aw poor little baby, so many crocodile tears, very entertaining ^
NOT as disgusting as YOU!!!
Alot of people died because mistakes were made – likely many mistakes.
selecting people for a job based on their race rather than their competence is racism – regardless of which race you favor.
Diversity – BTW is a value – it is not a principle. It is one of many values – it is subordinate to many other values – such as competence.
Not a single Trump EO has precluded diversity. All it has done is required that merit and particularly competence is required regardless of identity.
Trump is working to restore Martin Luther King’s dream.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. “
* The damage that has been done cannot be fixed or corrected.
Transformed America…the triple citizen Kenyan, Indonesian and American president.
The truth is that sanctuary states are using a national gerrymandering strategy of turning entire States and then using the US Census to claim all the illegals as US citizens so to gerrymander the US House.
Memo to DNC: Americans hate you.
Note to Schiff, Durbin, Klobuchar, Sanders: keep doing what you are doing
Quinnipiac University Poll Jan 29, 2025
In today’s poll, 31 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 57 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest percentage of voters having an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.
Forty-three percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, while 45 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest percentage of voters having a favorable opinion of the Republican Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.
This marks the biggest favorability advantage the Republican Party (43 percent) has held over the Democratic Party (31 percent) since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking these questions.
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3918
Estovir, the Dems are in Jimmy Carter – Walter Mondale – Michael Dukakis territory. They are in deep doo-doo until the economy crashes and they pull a Bill Clinton level talent out of their backside. Happened in ‘92 and it could happen again but probably not in time for 2028, imho.
There is more!
Democrats tell everyone they are more educated and more intellectually evolved than others. Yet, the numbers paint a very different picture:
Democrats’ brutal poll problem
Tracking polling from YouGov, for instance, shows the Democratic Party more unpopular than at any point since January 2017.
Similarly, a CNN poll released last week showed that a record-low 33 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the party.
That’s four points lower than in any CNN poll since 2006. And if you expand the dataset to earlier CNN, USA Today and Gallup polls, it’s the party’s worst since at least 1992.
The CNN poll also featured some more-detailed questions that point to Democrats’ problems rallying the troops:
Fully 32 percent of Democratic-leaning voters say the last few years in politics have made them feel “less like a part of the Democratic Party.”
Nearly 6 in 10 Democratic-leaning voters say the party needs either “major changes” or “to be completely reformed.”
Just 49 percent of Democratic-leaning voters expect the party to be at least “somewhat effective” in limiting GOP policies it opposes. Only 7 percent expect it to be “very effective.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/29/democrats-brutal-poll-problem/
TL;DR: Friends should not let friends become Democrats
8 USC 1324. Harboring. Let the indictments fly. University Presidents. Non-profit Exec. Directors. Mayors. Governors. Church boards.
* After dismantling the federal dept of ed and there’s no federal money , what will you cry out? States and counties and cities will pay for all of it and do as they want. The Constitution will still apply in immigration.
You’ve opened the border and the cost of millions and millions. Come here nations of the world for a free public education. Why have your home nation bear the cost. Why do you do that? You’ll collapse.
Enjoy.
Dept. of Education is unconstitutional and without legal basis in fundamental law.
* True , but it’s charitable. The US puts big stock in charity. It’s meant to educate the poor.
It’s not working out anymore. So like all 3rd worlds the US will evolve into and uneducated poverty class unable to read and write.
Get a donkey..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GijquodWUAITXDY?format=png&name=small
Jonathan: As of Tuesday there have been at least 4,829 arrests of undocumented people in the US. Let’s see, at 4800 arrests per week it will take about 44 years to arrest and deport all the about 11 million undocumented. And that assumes no new immigrants will enter the country during that same period. And this doesn’t include the hundreds and hundreds of billions required to carry out DJT’s deportation policy. In any rationale world does this make sense?
What about all the non-citizen workers who were aliens and could not be “admitted to become citizens” per existing immigration law on January 1, 1863?
When will they be compassionately repatriated?
Yeah!
The Supreme Court acted retroactively by 50 years to correct Roe v. Wade.
Will the Supreme Court act retroactively by 150 years on the colossal illegal immigration en masse that occurred on January 1, 1863?
Anyone admitted in the 19th century is DEAD. We are not going to deport dead bodies.
Regardless, while for much of the 19th century we allowed relatively unrestricted immigration (except from China, and Ireland and Italy).
We did so by law. for much of that time immigrants arrived, went through a checkpoint – those who were criminals, mentally unfit, unhealthy or indigent were detained and usually later deported.
“In any rationale world does this make sense?”
Laken Riley thinks so.
The following and more think so as well.
Kate Steinle
Molly Tibbetts
Bambi Larson
Sarah Root
Grant Ronnebeck
Jessica Mendoza
Pierce Corcoran
Tony Ramirez
Audrey Carey
Jamil Faris
William “Billy” D. Thompson
Zachary L. White
Melanie Melendez
AND MORE. What type of sick mind doesn’t understand why criminal illegal aliens must be removed. Dennis, you have a sickness that is nauseating to most decent people no matter what their race, religion or party.
The plan is to deport criminals first, then assess where we stand.
It is sad for you that you are so bitter.
It’s even better than that. trump has made deporting illegal immigrants his number 1 priority. That means the FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies, won’t investigate financial fraud or any number of other white color crimes. Why? Because the illegals are eating pets and killing people. Or at least that is the word the cult leader put out there. So this is really great for the Musks of the world, no worry about being investigated for financial fraud as long as trumps eye is on immigrants.
Your tax dollars hard at work ensuring billionaires become wealthier.
The billionaires don’t need our money you idiot.
You communist parasites and leeches do.
The American thesis is freedom and self-reliance; we learned that from our forefathers.
“SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY”
“That means the FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies, won’t investigate financial fraud or any number of other white color crimes.”
False the FBI has marginal involvement in immigration.
Everyone currently being deported is both a criminal – either having committed a crime BESIDES illegally crossing the border, int he US or in their home country. All have pending deportation orders – sign by immigration judges during the Biden administration.
WE have an entire massive system – much larger than FBI that involves CBP agents, ICE agents, Immigration courts, to deal with this.
What we are seeing right now – the securing of the border, and the deportation of criminals is being done ENTIRELY with existing budgeted resources.
No new money, no new employees, no new fascilities.
What is occuring now is done mostly without touching other federal staff.
The changes at the FBI are that when in the course of their normal work they encounter a criminal illegal immigrant – such as as the target of an investigation – they call up ICE who deports them. That is about it at the FBI
Some military resources are being diverted from IDLE status to temporarily putting up concertina wire while Border Wall construction takes place or flying deportees to their home country
We just had an election – not only did the majority reject your nonsense – but Millions of democrat voters stayed home – refusing to vote for YOUR nonsense.
Trump’s mandate is weak. But the anti-woke mandate is enormous. Your own voters did not show up to vote for YOUR woke candidates.
“You don’t matter anymore”
How many are self-deporting?
By your logic, we can remove them all, so why remove any?
DM – math is not your strong suit. – approx. 5000 Criminal Illegal immigrants.
These are NOT “undocumented people” – there is no such thing. More left wing nut word play.
These are not people who forgot their passports. All of them are actually quite well documented.
The approx. 5000 just deported are actual criminals – with convictings in the US or in their country of origin.
Next all of this is being done WITHIN the current budget
Absolutely NOTHING precluded Biden from doing this months ago.
Next the number of border crossings has Dropped to below 200/week.
Again entirely within the amount budgeted for Biden.
And all of this took place in the first week
How much do you get done during the first week of a new job ?
No this is not going to take “hundreds of Billions”.
And even if it did – Biden’s budget included 152B/year FEMA money for “illegal immigrants”.
That is why there was no money for NC – because it has all be spent – Remember.
Finally I would note – this does NOT include the THOUSANDS of self deportations that took place starting immediately after the election.
If you are deported by CBP/ICE – you are NEVER going to be allowed to immigrate to the US legally.
If however you leave the US without getting deported by CBP/ICE then you can go to a US embassy or consulate and apply for assylum or ask to immigrate to the US legally.
You have about a 1:7 chance (each year) of being allowed to immigrate legally. You are barred forever if you are caught in the US illegally and deported.
Entirely missed by the left is that Trump intended to increase significantly the number of LEGAL immigrants/year.
Absent a spike in US birth rates the US needs atleast 2M immigrants a year to sustain the economy.
Currently we have 1M legal immigrants and for the past 4 years we have had 4-5M illegal immigrants/year
It is likely that we will increase legal immigration to 2-3M/year,
But NOT until we have dramatically reduced illegal immigration.
Further – the increase in legal immigration will NOT mostly be from central and south america – though we will likely favor Cuban and Venezuelan political refugees (as opposed to cuban and Venezuelan criminals).
It is likely that increasing the number of US immigrants will increase those coming from India, Pakistan, China, Philpines, Malasyia, Vietnam.
Trump’s policies on most Everything are pro working class.
That is part of the recent fight over H1B visa’s – Trump and MAGA are not opposed to immigration.
They are fine with immigrants that compete with tech jobs and professionals.
They are opposed to bringing in people who compete with working class labor.
You are free to disagree with that choice. But it is NOT a “racist” choice, it is more of a class based choice.