{"id":281190,"date":"2017-01-30T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=281190"},"modified":"2017-01-30T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T21:29:38","slug":"carruthers-should-do-more-in-response-to-trump-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/01\/carruthers-should-do-more-in-response-to-trump-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Carruthers should do more in response to Trump executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COMMENTARY:<\/strong> On behalf of Standing with Our Students<em>,\u00a0<\/em>we read with great interest Chancellor\u00a0Carruthers\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/01\/trumps-order-impacts-dozens-of-nmsu-students-and-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent statement<\/a> to the New Mexico State University community on President Trump\u2019s executive order concerning immigration. We\u00a0appreciate that he wishes to \u201cprovide a safe and caring community where all students can focus on learning without fear of persecution and where all faculty and staff know that they are valued and supported.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_172601\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172601\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NMSU-sign-336x225.jpg\" alt=\"NMSU sign\" width=\"336\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NMSU-sign-336x225.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NMSU-sign.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Mexico State University sign at the corner of Union Avenue and Sam Steele Way in Las Cruces.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is also wonderful that he extends this protection to DACA students. In his memo, he\u00a0acknowledges that\u00a0this executive order\u00a0materially affects\u00a0our students, faculty, and\u00a0our\u00a0university\u00a0community\u00a0as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>However, we would encourage Chancellor Carruthers to go further. This executive order has already disrupted\u00a0the education and research of students and faculty who have legal permission to study and work here. The order threatens our university&#8217;s ability to recruit and retain\u00a0talented students and researchers from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>We would ask the chancellor to specify\u00a0the ways he will work with faculty, students and administrators to\u00a0provide a safe and caring community.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see\u00a0a strong and clear public statement confirming the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In accordance with federal law, the enforcement of immigration law rests with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Protection.\u00a0Campus police will not partner with federal, state, or other local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law except when required to do so by law.<\/li>\n<li>The university will not share immigration status except when required to do so by law.<\/li>\n<li>Campus police will not inquire about or record immigration status when performing their duties.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone found to be harassing members of the university community about their race, religion, or country of origin will be immediately referred to the appropriate authorities.<\/li>\n<li>A desire that the immigration ban be ended quickly, as it threatens to cause great harm to New Mexico State University\u2019s ability to maintain its excellence in serving its students and generating cutting-edge research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also hope\u00a0that Chancellor Carruthers will join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aplu.org\/news-and-media\/News\/aplu-statement-on-trump-administrations-new-order-temporarily-banning-citizens-of-seven-countries-from-entering-us\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0many other\u00a0university presidents<\/a> across the United States\u00a0who have written about the global responsibility American universities have exercised in the project of international cooperation and peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrea Orzoff is an associate history professor at NMSU,\u00a0Julie Rice is an associate sociology professor, and Elizabeth Schirmer and Connie Voisine are associate English professors. They write on behalf of the NMSU campus group <a href=\"http:\/\/standingwithourstudents.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standing With Our Students<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s order threatens our university&#8217;s ability to recruit and retain talented students and researchers from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[140,3307,125,133,116],"class_list":["post-281190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-donald-trump","tag-education","tag-nmsu","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}