Archive for July, 2018

The Trump Administration has drawn up plans to strike down the Obama-era “guidelines” for college admissions—which gave blacks and Hispanics preference over whites and Asians in student placements—the Wall Street Journal has reported.

According to the report, the Trump administration argues that the 2011 and 2016 Obama guidelines—which give universities the right to select black and Hispanic applicants with lower scores before whites with similar or higher scores—serve to “mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than the law allows.”

Socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio joined a growing list of Democratic figures Friday who want to abolish the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. While he thinks the United States needs some sort of immigration enforcement agency, de Blasio said “ICE’s time has come and gone.”

“We should abolish ICE, we should create something better, something different,” de Blasio said in his weekly appearance on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show.” “But in the way it’s developed, it has become a punitive, negative tool for division and it’s no longer acceptable.”

ICE was established in 2003 as one of several agencies under the then-newly created Department of Homeland Security. Some progressives argue it has morphed into an out-of-control deportation force that tramples on immigrants.