The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ice/)
On Monday afternoon, around 40 students rallied for immigrant rights, demanding more legal services for undocumented students and an end to University contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In a Tuesday meeting, the University Assembly discussed topics of emissions and immigration.
ICE issued new guidance for new international students, clarifying decisions made earlier in July.
The Trump administration rescinded controversial ICE guidance to strip student visas from international students taking a full online course load.
In her most recent email to the student body, President Martha E. Pollack criticized ICE’s restrictions on international students and informed the community of actions the University is taking to shift ICE’s ruling.
To the Editor:
The recent announcement from the Department of Homeland Security adding restrictions to Non-immigrant F-1 student visas is a xenophobic, bigoted and inhumane political stunt designed to further nationalist rhetoric. The decision to restrict student visas is the latest attack on the international community under the guise of national economic security or public health. These include but are not limited to the 2018 Muslim travel ban, various attempts to overturn Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policies and recent rollbacks on foreign worker visas. Denying students the right to educational opportunities based on immigration status is in direct violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This discrimination based on national origin endangers not only student achievement, mental health and physical health amidst a global pandemic, but is also detrimental to the longevity of Cornell’s educational philosophy and Ithaca’s economy.
Irrespective of your political opinion concerning illegal immigration, Living Undocumented is a must-watch.
Carolina Osorio Gil, director of Cultura Ithaca organized the “Stop Criminalizing Our People” rally to protest the recent U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement presence in Ithaca.
Tuesday’s reported arrest of a man in downtown Ithaca by U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement is the latest example of the federal overreach and lack of accountability characteristic to the Trump administration. Under President Trump, arrests by ICE have increased 47 percent, and arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal records have increased a staggering 179 percent. ICE continues to show a blatant disregard for human dignity, arresting parents dropping their kids off at school, students going to high school prom and patients emerging from operating rooms. On Jan. 16, ICE arrested a Michigan doctor and lawful permanent resident, and have initiated deportation proceedings against him based on two misdemeanor charges from nearly three decades ago, when the man was a teenager. How does that make us safer?
The Ithaca man who was arrested by federal immigration agents in May will not be sentenced to additional time for having a fake green card, paving the way for his immigration case to proceed.