The Daily Orange – The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York
Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban as unconstitutional and illegal.
While discussing the travel ban during an address to the Graduate Student Organization at the group’s meeting, Syverud said the United States Constitution make clear that “blanket decision-making about individuals based on national origin is unconstitutional.”
“It’s illegal,” he added.
Syverud spoke for several minutes on Wednesday about the new ban, which puts a hold on issuing visas for citizens of six countries — Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Libya and Sudan — for 90 days, and suspends the United States’ refugee program for 120 days.
The order is a less severe version of Trump’s Jan. 27 ban on travel, with Iraq no longer included. Syverud last month denounced the original ban, which was ultimately shot down in a U.S. appeals court.
Syverud said the revised order will jeopardize the predicament of current international graduate students and students enrolling this coming fall. He said some of the university’s best students have, throughout SU’s history, come from the countries included in the ban.
“And we don’t want to stand down from that history,” he said.
Syverud’s comments Wednesday follow his pattern of expressing support for students from the countries affected by Trump’s polices. Following Trump’s election and the original travel ban, he expressed support for undocumented students and students from the countries included in the first ban.
He also denounced the original travel ban in a statement to the University Senate last month, after two petitions circulated among community members calling on him to do so. He said at the time that SU “simply cannot support or abide by any policy that discriminates against, or makes a preference for, one person over the other based on religion, national origin or other inherent characteristics.”
On Wednesday, Syverud said he’ ...
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Friday, March 10, 2017
Syracuse University Chancellor: Trump’s revised travel ban is ‘unconstitutional’
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