Simply appalling.
Via Politico:
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that it’s up to individual schools to decide whether to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they suspect their students are undocumented.
“That’s a school decision. It’s a local community decision,” DeVos said during testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Committee, adding that “we have laws and we also are compassionate.” Her comments came in her first-ever appearance before the education panel, lasting close to three and a half hours.
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Roger Algase
Attorney at Law
That''s what the schools wanted when I was an immigration counsel on Judiciary, and I strongly suspect that they still feel that way. Their argument was that they should not be in the enforcement business, particularly with respect to their own students. They said that was the government's responsibility.
In other words, the same argument being used to justify sanctuary cities.
Nolan Rappaport