Giving Sanctuary At Harvard

YOU CAN'T GET INTO HARVARD if you're not a good student. You gotta be smart, with good grades and a solid work ethic. That includes the athletes, which doesn't help Harvard win many football or basketball games nowadays. Approximately forty of Harvard's thousands of good students are undocumented aliens, children of parents who crossed into America many years ago looking for opportunity, and brought their brainy dreamer kids with them. Now that Obama is leaving office and is being replaced by someone who isn't exactly known for being immigrant friendly, now that Obama's executive order giving temporary amnesty for dreamer children has been challenged and put on hold by the court system, Harvard is concerned that the federal immigration authorities might suddenly show up on campus, track down the forty dreamer students, all of whom are doing well in school and are headed for a successful graduation, arrest them, carry them away in shackles, and either lock them up and throw away the key or deport them. The president of Harvard thinks that would be a shame, as do most civilized folks, and has declared his intention of running his university as a "sanctuary institution", meaning that on campus the feds will have no help from the university in tracking down the at risk students. All across America we have of course sanctuary cities, in which local police have been instructed not to use their valuable time helping the feds track down illegal aliens, but rather to focus on actual crime, of the locally committed variety. If the feds want to make the rules, which is their duty with regard to immigration policy, then let them enforce them. Cities and universities have enough work cut out for them just keeping their jurisdictions safe, without doing the federal government's job for them. That's the rationale behind the progressive minded sanctuary concept as it is practiced in municipalities and colleges across the country, and it does not seem to be going away anytime soon, despite the outraged expressions of conservative groups such as "Judicial Watch", the right wing organization whose purpose is to advocate for the placement of conservative justices on America's court benches, the destruction of Hillary Clinton, and the punishment of sanctuary cities by the American people and the American government. How noble. Trump is likely to threaten all kinds of mayhem for sanctuary institutions, including deprivation of federal funding. That probably won't have any impact on Harvard, which is rich by other means, mostly contributions from wealthy alumni.