Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Ortt Warns SUNY Campuses Against Sanctuary Movement

 

The election of Donald Trump will doubtlessly have a trickle down policy impact here in New York, and this letter from western New York GOP Sen. Robert Ortt is an example of that.

Following Trump’s electoral victory, college campuses across the state, as well as nation, moved to enact sanctuary policies, which was seen as a remonstrance against the president-elect’s hard line on undocumented immigrants.

But Ortt in a letter to SUNY trustees, notes that 2017 will start with a Republican controlled Senate, House and President who could reverse outgoing President Barack Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals which has essentially halted potential deportations of students brought here — legally or not — when they were young and under their parents’ or guardians’ control. 

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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)

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