Trump administration ‘means business’ on college crackdown: Linda McMahon

The Trump administration will not back away from its investigations on college campuses to stamp out antisemitism and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs despite an executive order to dismantle the Education Department, according to Secretary Linda McMahon. President Donald Trump’s directive last week to shut down the department has not slowed down enforcement actions against colleges, with a multiagency task force meeting Tuesday to continue its work, McMahon said.



Trump administration ‘means business’ on college crackdown: Linda McMahon

 

So he is shutting down the department and decreasing funding to schools while having wanting to increase oversight? Very stable genius.

 

Good news.

Anti-semitism is a plague and when it is practiced by faculty and administration, it is a particular problem. Needs to be stamped out.

We need equity and diversity but not the excesses of anti-fact based practices and prejudice.

A professor goes back to Lebanon to attend the funeral of a Hezbollah leader (responsible for untold numbers of murders). She is surprised she is denied reentry and the press, faculty, and politicians rally to her defense.

 

And the purpose of a Student Visa is to grant you the privilege of studying in the United States. You are a guest in someone else's house. So, study. It wasn't granted so you can support terrorist organizations, stoke your prejudices from your homeland against Jews, etc. We don't need people here undermining society inside the country (we have enough stupid people of our own).

Be an exemplary house guest while you stay here.

 

Because there isn't anything that she did that was illegal. People go to funerals for closure.

 

We have clans members and nazis in the US who are given more rights than visa owners. Technically, visa holders are protected by the constitution, but it doesn't seem to be applied equally.

 

Closure? That is a flex. She was a supporter (she said Hassan Nasrallah was a religious and spiritual person).

Homeland Security said,

"A visa is a privilege not a right-glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security."

 

I'm guessing because as distasteful as they are they are citizens and student Visa holders aren't. They apparently share anti-semitism though. So there is a connection.

 

Of course this isn't arbitrary but for specific reasons.

They are guests in this country and supporting people and entities that murder Americans or stoking anti-semitism and making it unsafe for people isn't a good thing for guests to do. At that point bye bye and don't let the door hit you on the way out. They abused a privilege to be here and became lousy house guests.

 

KKK, Nazis, Aryan Nation, Proud Boys all good with you and Trump. But a college student on college campus with a picket, that is too scary.

 

Logical fallacy. Too silly for words.

 

That certainly isn’t a denial. Canceling visas of people who say things that scare you is a violation of the first amendment and basic civil liberties.

 

No, she just went to the funeral for the head of an Islamic terror organization.

Strawman. And fortunately, people who are here owed to visas don't have an inviolable right to be here.

 

That isnt illegal.

I mean ya, by definition visas are temporary. Doesnt mean visa holders dont have constitutionally protected rights.

 

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not scared. I agree with much of what the Trump administration is doing right now. Not all, but a lot. That said, I don't particularly like the way this administration is going about it's business, nor do I like Donald Trump. I find Trump to be an extreme embarrassment to the Office and I find him offensive as a person. Endorsing an ideal, or a program, or an initiative, is not an all-encompassing endorsement of the person or of all their ideas and initiatives. To assume that a Trump supporter on one or more issues also embraces KKK, Proud Boys, or white elitism is offensive. And I see way too much of that these days from both sides.

 

You are more mad about semantics than the actual crimes taking place here. Sure, call people who endorse this whatever you want, maybe even very fine people. That doesn't make this any less sever of an attack on the constitution or civil liberties.

 

Really? I am more about semantics? I'm willing to hear you out. Please explain your conclusion that I am more about semantics. For context, my comments were in response to your earlier comments: "KKK, Nazis, Aryan Nation, Proud Boys all good with you and Trump. But a college student on college campus with a picket, that is too scary." Please explain how you concluded that I am focused on semantics based on our brief exchange (your comment, which I find to be far reaching, assumptive and prejudicial, and my subsequent counter.