Letter Calls For UCD to Become a Sanctuary Campus

By Vanguard AdministratorNovember 18, 2016149 comments
ucdavis-campusLetter to President Napolitano and Chancellor Hexter From Hart Hall Chairs and Directors
 
Given the recent presidential election results and the selected cabinet and transition team, we urgently call upon President Napolitano and Chancellor Hexter to declare our UCD campus, and the UC system by extension, a sanctuary campus. That is to say, a campus that grants permanent protection, dignity, and respect for all immigrants. This will make  the UC system one that stands with vulnerable student populations and their family members against unfair deportation, investigation, or other forms of intimidation.
 
We urgently call on President Napolitano and Chancellor Hexter to be in solidarity with our various students, staff, and faculty communities that feel under direct threat by the president elect’s stated intentions to persecute those of different races, nationalities, and religions.  
 
We call on President Napolitano and Interim Chancellor Hexter to send a strong message condemning all forms of bigotry, bullying, and harassment. You must reaffirm UCD campus’ and the UC system’s commitment to nondiscrimination regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, immigration status, socioeconomic status, or social, political, and economic philosophy. Now is the time to send a clear message that our campuses will be a “zero tolerance zone” and will take any measures to make our campus safer for diverse communities, and support protections against the persecution and bigotry toward Muslims, LGBTQIA people, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Mexicans and Latinos/as, immigrants, women, sexual assault victims, and people with disabilities, and will not participate in any attempt to deny our students their right to an education in a dignified future.
 
Finally, we call on you, President Napolitano and Chancellor Hexter, to send a strong message reaffirming the University’s commitment to academic freedom, and to its support, now more than ever, of ethnic studies departments, the humanities, and courses that challenge bigotry, racial discrimination, and white supremacy.
Maxine Craig, Director of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
Robert Irwin, Chair of Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Carlos Jackson, Chair of Chicana/o Studies
Richard Kim, Chair of Asian American Studies
Nicelma King, Chair of African American and African Studies
Zoila Mendoza, Chair of Native American Studies
Julie Sze, Chair of American Studies

Author

Categories:

Breaking News Civil Rights Vanguard at UC Davis

Tags:

149 comments

  1. That would be a dumb move for UC Davis.

    Are they willing to take a chance on losing federal funding, federal infrastructure and research grants, are the students ready to pay higher tuition fees all in order to protect illegals with criminal records?

    1. Again – your premise is flawed you never answered the point yesterday and your point is even more flawed here. For UCD the biggest issue is DACA where students under the dream act are imperiled and none of those have criminal records.

      1. You’re not answering the question either.  How will UC Davis and the city of Davis replace the lost federal funds if they decide to adopt or remain in sanctuary status?

         

        1. I don’t know – but there are a lot of variables here. We don’t even know how much funding comes from the federal government? Does UCD get any? The programs listed that get funded federally in Davis might go away under the new admin any way. Do you even care if CDBG funding goes away?

        2. Well with just a quick search here’s just a few examples of federal funding that UC Davis received:

          Federal funding tops sources for UC Davis
          Awards from the federal government topped the list for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, totaling $391 million. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services accounted for the largest source of federal funding with $213 million in awards, up from $206 million last year. The next highest federal award was from the Department of State at $53 million, followed by the National Science Foundation with $43 million in awards.

          https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-receives-760-million-sponsored-research-funding/
          https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-receives-25m-federal-funding-west-village-renewable-energy-project

          http://www.dailydemocrat.com/article/NI/20161116/NEWS/161119889

        3. BP wrote:

          > Awards from the federal government topped the list

          > for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, totaling $391 million.

          With ~66,000 people in town it would only take a modest parcel tax of $5,924 per person (less than $24K for a family of four) to make up the difference and help those that have total disregard for out immigration laws.

      2. David wrote:

        > none of those have criminal records.

        aka none of them have been “caught” (and convicted of) driving without a license, working without paying taxes, driving around with loaded guns or breaking any other laws…

        3. David wrote:

          > Just as you haven’t been caught doing those things either

          I’m wondering if David is aware that most (almost all) “legal” residents get drivers licenses before driving, have social security numbers and pay taxes when working and legally buy guns while most (almost all) “illegal aliens” drive without a license, work without paying taxes and if they get a gun buy it without a background check…

          1. Until this year, undocumented immigrants couldn’t get drivers licenses in California. And I seem to recall that most conservatives opposed them being allowed to get them. Kind of a Catch-22 in terms of being able to avoid driving without a license.

        4. Don wrote:

          > Until this year, undocumented immigrants couldn’t

          > get drivers licenses in California.

          It has been almost TWO (2) full years since the DMV started giving drivers licenses to illegals and the most recent numbers I saw was that LESS than 10% of the estimated illegals in the state have applied for one.

          http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/ab-60-drivers-license.php

          My problem is not with people who come here to work but with the current “wink/nod” system where citizens (of all races) get in trouble for driving without a drivers license, working without paying taxes and have to pay out of state tuition if they are not a legal resident while the “illegal/undocumented” get a free pass from the people that don’t have the guts to stand up and change the laws and make them apply equally to all people in the state.

  2. How will UCD deal with any sanctions from the Feds? I don’t know and I don’t care. Trumps attacks on immigrants must be opposed by decent and humane people everywhere. Would you turn in Anne Frank or risk reprisal? I’ll risk reprisal.

    1. Why do you have a problem with illegals who commit crimes being deported?  Now I agree that the level of the crimes they have or will commit before they’re eligible for deportation has to be determined.

      1. I answered your question but you haven’t answered mine – what makes you believe that those deported will be limited to those who committed crimes?

      2. Hitler didn’t kill 6 million Jews all at once. It started incrementally with signs in shop windows, boycotts, armbands then targeted taxes and restrictions on working, moving people to ghettos and finally to the rail station and deportation to death camps.

        Each incremental step of oppression under Trump must be opposed. Just as people resisted by sheltering Anne Frank or resisted in other ways as did people like Schiendler, Wallenburg or Muriel Gardiner, we must all stand up and oppose Trump’s racist and xenophobic policies however we can. I applaud the letter writers for speaking up for those who can’t speak for themselves.

        4. It is you three who trivialize my references to Hitler. I make them earnestly. You all have no idea how Trump’s hateful campaign will manifest itself. That he advocated water boarding and killing the families of terrorists or said he wants to deport millions seems to cause you, who feel safe, to dismiss the seriousness of the forces that could now be unleashed upon society. The lack of concern reminds me of what Hannah Arendt referred to as “The banality of evil.”

        6. ” You all have no idea how Trump’s hateful campaign will manifest itself.” That is correct though the corollary is that you don’t know either. As noted above Obama has killed both US citizens  and foreigners with no due process whatsoever. Also of note is that just about every other country deports illegal migrants. Can you name another country with 11M illegals? Are they all hitleresque?

        7. It is you three who trivialize my references to Hitler. I make them earnestly. You all have no idea how Trump’s hateful campaign will manifest itself.

          As a Jew who had a good percentage of the family origin snuffed by Hitler, I’ll damn well say you are making a ridiculous comparison.  In fact, if you have the guts to come out from behind your cowardly mask of anonymity, I’ll place you a $1000 bet that in eight years not one person of race, national origin or sexual identity will have been snuffed out in a Trump gas chamber.  Care to take that bet?  No, I didn’t think so . . .

          Now STOP!

          1. I agree – the federal government has gone away from the gas chamber (as of 1988) as the method of execution. It does appear that there are five states that still allow for death by gas chamber.

        8. I too lost many distant and not so distant relatives in the 40’s Allen, and as a member of the tribe I’m saddened that you seem to miss the parallels between 1932 and 2016. It struck me when a kid asked if her aunt was going to need to leave the country. I began thinking about what it felt like when Hitler was elected. How some were worried and others not so much. Maybe they won’t use gas chambers but I fear that lots of people are going to die or be tortured. I was raised to believe that the never again mantra means that we must stand up against hate in its many forms because eventually the haters will turn on the Jews. You are lucky to feel so complacent. I am not of that mindset. About that bet, how about $1000 dollars that domestic anti-Semitic attacks and anti-muslim attacks and anti-mexican attacks increase in the next four years? Lets go two out of three Allen. The loser can donate the money to the charity of the winners choice.

      3. Now I agree that the level of the crimes they have or will commit before they’re eligible for deportation has to be determined

        My confidence in the Trump administration or the incoming Congress making that determination in a fair or humane manner is zero.

  3. “are the students ready to pay higher tuition fees all in order to protect illegals with criminal records?”

    You have repeated this question several times. For me, it is the wrong question. The question for me is “are the students ready to pay higher tuition fees all in order to protect their innocent colleagues who happen to be of another religion, of a different skin tone , from a country in which terrorism has occurred , or whose parents brought them here undocumented long before they would have and any say in the decision ?

    After the election results were announced, although in shock, I decided to wait and see which president elect would show up. The one who made multiple egregious statements as part of a campaign strategy or the one who his handlers repeatedly convinced to “walk back” his hate speech. Unfortunately, with the appointments of Bannon ( racist, misogynist) , Sessions ( racist) and Flynn ( who purports that Islam is a political philosophy, not a religion )we are clearly seeing who is showing up and it does not bode well for the basic principles of our country.

    I don’t know about the students, but I am willing to make a large contribution if the campus were to declare itself a sanctuary campus just as I will support the city for maintenance of our status as a sanctuary city if need be.

    1. I am willing to make a large contribution if the campus were to declare itself a sanctuary campus just as I will support the city for maintenance of our status as a sanctuary city if need be

      Any contribution you’re willing to make is a drop in the bucket for what will/could be lost.

      Unfortunately, with the appointments of Bannon ( racist, misogynist) , Sessions ( racist) 

      No true, just more lies being promulgated by the left where the true hate is coming from.

       

       

      1. They’re not lies.
        Plenty of evidence of Bannon’s racism and misogyny, so I won’t bother to repost those. Sessions was denied a federal judgeship over racist comments in the 1980’s.

        In 1986, a Senate committee denied Sessions, then a 39-year-old U.S. attorney in Alabama, a federal judgeship. His former colleagues testified Sessions used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were “okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana.”

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/18/10-things-to-know-about-sen-jeff-sessions-donald-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general/

      2. Don wrote:

        > Sessions was denied a federal judgeship over racist comments in the 1980’s.

        So if someone did something idiotic in the 80’s it it OK to call them an “idiot” in every post to the Vanguard?  How about if someone lied to the FBI about e-mails can we call then a ‘liar” in every post?

        > Sessions used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan

        I heard an interview with Snoop Dogg where he (while smoking a joint) used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan.  Does that make him a racist (or is it OK since he does not have right of center views)?

         

        1. I don’t think Snoop Dogg should be Attorney General. Could you stop making pointless analogies and asking questions that amount to absurd reductionism?
          If Sessions is Trump’s choice, he should defend or explain those comments during the hearings. I’m sure it’ll come up. There was a time when he was considered extreme. Now, with this administration, he’s mainstream. That tells us all something.

          1. I agree that it’s been over three decades since those incidents that cost him a federal judgeship, so he should be given an opportunity to explain his views on racial issues and how they might inform his tenure as attorney general. Plenty of Southern politicians have, in fact, evolved in their views. I assume that the Democratic party members of the Judiciary Committee will grill him on it.

        3. “So if someone did something idiotic in the 80’s it it OK to call them an “idiot” in every post to the Vanguard?”

          No one is saying that any of these appointees are “idiots” I am saying and maintaining that in their own words they have demonstrated their racist and misogynistic mind sets. And, no, I do not see that anything that any of them has done recently would lead me to believe that they have changed their minds through the years.

          “Does that make him a racist ?”

          It might or might not depending on what he actually said and the context in which he said it. I think it is important to note that anyone, not just whites, can have a racist mind set. My very swarthy ex husband has evolved over time into one of the most racist individuals I know.  Go figure. Racism, like religious discrimination,  misogyny and hate does not belong to any single group.