Posted on 01/27/2018 9:09:44 AM PST by rey
Before a crowd of more than 100 civic and business leaders, Santa Rosa Junior College President Frank Chong on Friday vowed to resist federal immigration operations on campus and defy all requests for information about undocumented students, even if it lands him behind bars.
“If it’s about release of information, we’re not going to cooperate. If they end up on campus, we’re not going to cooperate,” Chong said. “We will engage in civil disobedience and I will be willing to go to jail in order to protect the rights of my students.”
Chong’s defiant words came during a packed, noontime forum on Latinos and education, held in the main lobby of Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. The forum, which was hosted by Los Cien, Sonoma County’s largest Latino leadership organization, also featured Judy Sakaki, president of Sonoma State University, and Diane Kitamura, superintendent of Santa Rosa City Schools. Sakaki and Kitamura both echoed Chong’s commitment to educating all students, regardless of their immigration status.
“We have a pact to help each other out if we end up going to jail,” said Kitamura, adding that she has made it clear to immigration officials that they must go through her office before initiating any operation at a school site.
Sakaki said there are “several hundred” undocumented students enrolled at Sonoma State and she would do all that she could to support them. “I have said publicly, there will be no walls at Sonoma State and I got hate mail,” she said.
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I say we test their resolve and lock them up.
“I will be willing to go to jail in order to protect the rights of my students.”
I say we oblige him.
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They need to be locked up.
“Sakaki said there are “several hundred” undocumented students enrolled at Sonoma State and she would do all that she could to support them.”
Nice of her to “size the problem” for ICE.
Lock up these law breakers and their accomplices.
My right to speech, doesn’t mean you have to listen
My right to freely worship my God; doesn’t mean you must do the same
My rights cost no one else a dime.
Illegals have no “right” to stay; as they cost us all over $160 Billion/year in direct costs. They are demanding an “entitlement” to which they have no claims
Lock them up and take all their assets, to include their pensions, to pay for the illegal criminal invaders
If Federal laws can be openly defied with impunity, I’m going to stop paying my income tax.
I wonder if they feel this strongly about a student’s right for concealed carry?
Now that ICE knows how big the problem is, why not serve a warrant for the school’s records?
My guess is the speaker exaggerated the number of illegal students as a way to maximize her virtue signalling.
Good. Let their tuition come out of his salary. Don’t make American kids who have spent their whole lives preparing for college subsidize illegal invaders. Alternatively, let him and the rest of the faculty provide the education for free and purchase the text books out of their own pocket.
Students who are citizens should sue for discrimination. These liberals are treating them as if they have no status and no rights, while they bend over backwards to give every advantage to illegals.
Hope none of these “children” commit felonies against their defenders among the elite.
Sonoma State has an enrollment of about 9,000 students so potentially 10% of the student body are illegal aliens.
“Just keep funneling us that state tuition money! We don’t care where if comes from!!!”
Can Trump end Pell grants by executive order ???
Agreed....Lock’em Up.
California is in rebellion.
The Department of Education is an executive agency that answers directly to him, so I don’t see why not.
That, and encourage anyone to report on any illegals present and the people protecting them.
Nevermind the wall, the Federal authorities need to set up check points now on all roads and rails out of California to check the status of all who try to leave the state. Don’t anyone try to tell me it would be impractical - I remember travelling into CA just after 9/11 and there were check points then on all the roads; every vehicle was stopped.
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