Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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But, we need effective, legal control of borders as well. So we can readily put the resources and public will to better control borders to acceptale levels. We can revise entry and migration requirements and quota.
Once this is underway, and we are confident of adequate border control, it is likely we will grant some sort of ti e phased general or conditional amnesty, perhaps excepting criminals, revolutionaries, and deviants.. This is a practical way of quickly regaining the rule of law.
It has been done before when the national interest is served. Carter gave it to draft dodgers in the late 80s. Lincoln pardoned Confederate army "rebels", Tax cheats get occasional respites, Ford pardoned Nixon. It is a option which has an appeal. But of course, not everyone will support it.
Meanwhile people adapt. Trouble continues.
UC didn't think this short-sighted action all the way through before making the announcement. When it threatens to cost every faculty member all possibility of any federal support funding, let's see how long it lasts.
UC didn't think this short-sighted action all the way through before making the announcement. When it threatens to cost every faculty member all possibility of any federal support funding, let's see how long it lasts.
Interesting with this and our Director's latest memo about getting along at work.
Just an opinion but both sound a little like TDS?
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-releases-principles-support-uc-community-members
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The University of California today (Nov. 30) announced that it will vigorously protect the privacy and civil rights of the undocumented members of the UC community and will direct its police departments not to undertake joint efforts with any government agencies to enforce federal immigration law.
“While we still do not know what policies and practices the incoming federal administration may adopt, given the many public pronouncements made during the presidential campaign and its aftermath, we felt it necessary to reaffirm that UC will act upon its deeply held conviction that all members of our community have the right to work, study, and live safely and without fear at all UC locations,” said UC President Janet Napolitano.
The University issued its Statement of Principles in Support of Undocumented Members of the UC Community after Napolitano met earlier today with UC staff coordinators who support undocumented students at all 10 UC campuses. Napolitano also reviewed the recommendations of a UC task force that she established to study the most effective ways to protect undocumented students and other undocumented members of the UC community.
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December 7, 2016 at 2:18 PM
The progressive movement cares only about results, THEIR desired results, and not laws or the desires of anyone else outside their progressive echo chamber. Voices from outside the box are "extreme right wing" no matter how moderate, and lately they are also "racist" and "sexist" too. This is what pushed Trump to victory, the obnoxious self-righteous progressive left and their echo chamber view of the world.
UC has a legal obligation to not employ illegal immigrants.
If UC has hired an illegal as staff, as a research assistant, teaching assistant, or faculty, there's an anonymous way to report this to ICE. If UC is intentionally doing this, Napolitano can be prosecuted.
Might be true, but nothing in the US Constitution about this. Congress can easily change the immigration law, and the President is ultimately the chief law enforcement officer.
Go Bears.
December 8, 2016 at 7:58 PM
Don't hold your breath. ICE will refuse Trump's orders. Only one of many such showdowns to come, It will be ugly.
December 8, 2016 at 7:58 PM
Don't hold your breath. ICE will refuse Trump's orders. Only one of many such showdowns to come, It will be ugly.
December 9, 2016 at 6:13 PM
The selective enforcement of the Nation's laws is not an option under the Constitution. It either is against the law, or it is not, to be in the US without legal, documented permission.
Let's assume that you work at LLNL, and you decide that you want to selectively abide by certain laws. For example, you might determine that you do not want to follow the law related to prohibitions on removal of classified material from the Lab. You take a few hundred classified documents out of the Lab, and the police find them when they raid a drug den in a mobile home park.
We either are, or are not, a Nation that follows the rule of law. It is not up to some subset of the population to determine that laws with which they agree will be followed, and those with which they disagree are OK to flaunt and openly violate.
December 10, 2016 at 6:37 AM
And yet, somehow, it happens all the time. Imagine that.
It never happened in the history of the US, at least on a federal level, until the DoJ head made it a policy a few years ago. When you have the AG, as the top law enforcement official in the country, start selectively choosing what laws to enforce based on personal opinion, then the entire rule of law for the Nation becomes open to such personal choice.
Back to the point of 6:37 AM, you make a most compelling case, and one that is highly relevant to all workers in the nuclear weapons labs!
December 10, 2016 at 9:55 AM
Hey, Pollyanna, your lack of knowledge of US history is jaw-dropping. Corruption and ignoring the law has been happening in the federal government since there has been a federal government.
December 10, 2016 at 8:22 PM
You are right and immigration laws are racist laws passed by those of white privilege. It took a minority AG and a minority president to see these racist laws for what they were and refuse to enforce them.
History is full of examples of anti-immigrant sentiment arising whenever the citizens of a country feel that it's national identity is at risk. The Irish and German, and to some extent the Italian immigrants, were discriminated against as early as the late 1800's, and obviously not because of "white privilege." A little historical knowledge can prevent the trap of attempting to develop a dialectic and worldview based on relatively recent events.
People did not say "lets build a wall to keep the Irish out" that is just crazy. Never in the history of the United States did we decide to keep a race of people from coming to the United States and now overnight everything is changing, just like it it did in 1930's, exactly like that if you think about it. It is you my friend that need to study history and you only have to go back 75 years to see how all of this happened before, go educate yourself and read about Nazi Germany, Fascist Russia, and the Italians who followed Germany's lead and also went Fascist. The ignorance of some
portions of the American populace is a disgrace.