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ASB Tables Vote on Making University Sanctuary City for Illegal Immigrants
It was recently announced that the Ole Miss Associated Student Body’s Committee for Inclusion had drafted a resolution that would make Ole Miss a formal “Sanctuary City” for illegal immigrants. The resolution was to have been voted on tonight.
However, in a comment by Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R), the support for the resolution has been pulled, according to him, due to “actions taken by thousands of Mississippians.”
A Sanctuary City is designed to protect undocumented immigrants by following certain procedures that work to shelter illegal immigrants.
The resolution has sparked debate across the state, but that is not the reason the vote is being delayed, according to the Faculty Senate Chair Brice Noonan, who also made it clear that the Faculty Senate had no involvement in the drafting of this legislation.
(Note: In order for a resolution to be implemented it must pass through the Faculty Senate after going through ASB.)
“My understanding is that the proper procedure was not followed by the resolution’s author in presenting it to ASB,” Noonan said.
The resolution includes the demand to restrict Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other border patrol agencies from “all land owned or controlled by the university” and calls for the “use of institutional funds and scholarships to fill any gap created by discriminatory laws that exclude immigrant students from paying in-state rate.” The demands don’t stop there, as one paragraph states that online options be made available in the case of imprisonment.
“In the event of arrest, imprisonment, and deportation, or due to student reluctance to travel or appear on campus, UM ought to have in place arrangements for online continuation of students’ degree programs,” the resolution reads.
The resolution urged this be passed and implemented “Before the President-Elect is sworn into office” due to Trump’s border patrol policies.
While it appears no vote will take place tonight, the matter can be revisited by ASB at a later date. Senator McDaniel noted that if this resolution does pass at any time, it will be up to legislature to take action.
“As an initial matter, illegal aliens should not be receiving public benefits. Moreover, the practices of sanctuary jurisdictions violate federal law,” McDaniel’s Facebook post reads “If the university administration implements the proposal, then the legislature must take immediate action.”
To read the ASB Resolution in full, click here.
HottyToddy.com has reached out to ASB for a comment and will update the story as we receive more information.
Steven Gagliano is a writer for HottyToddy.com. He can be reached at steven.gagliano@hottytoddy.com.
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Greg Torchia
November 30, 2016 at 5:08 am
Send them home make them come in the front door like everybody else had to include my dad at Ellis Island
Frank Miller
November 30, 2016 at 9:38 am
Let’s take all the OM students who came up with this proposal and put them on a slow boat to Somalia. There they can do anything they want. Including getting their heads chopped off. Which may improve their thinking. This is totally disgusting!! The ending of playing Dixie was the final straw for me. No more season tickets to anything. We have given in to so many things that go against most all Mississippians beliefs. Colonel Rebel. Confederate Flag. State Flag. Dixie. Chancellors who don’t have balls to stand up for me and u
Jack Howard
November 30, 2016 at 10:08 am
IF this sanctuary status were ever to be approved, I would campaign to cease all support and any role the City of Oxford has in the Oxford University Transit (OUT) system. This would include any percentage of matching funds from taxpayer dollars and the City’s role as initiator for grant requests from the US Department of Transportation.
David Deterly, Ole Miss '63
November 30, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Obviously there are those that would choose to honor only the laws that meets their approval. It is against the law to harbor criminals. Illegal means against the law, i.e. criminal. What a bunch of idiots . You are not yet productive members of society. Go to class, get an education or go home.
John, Class of 2000
November 30, 2016 at 2:06 pm
An actual government entity willfully disobeying the law. Seems like the only people not welcome on campus is white males
William E. LeMay
December 5, 2016 at 6:25 pm
How can a group of people elected to represent students as well all the State of Mississippi be so stupid as to even entertain the idea of being a “Sanctuary City” ? This breaks all the laws our country was founded on! Let’s see, they have: taken playing Dixie away, taken Johnny Reb away, the Rebel Flag away, and the spirit of being a Rebel away, now they want to turn the campus over to illegals.
Can anyone think of a good reason to give even one dollar to Ole Miss
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