{"id":3146,"date":"2025-03-20T03:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:50:29","slug":"columbia-undocumented-immigrants-admissions-guidance-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Undocumented Immigrants Admissions Guidance Vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">Columbia University appears<\/span> to have removed a webpage giving guidance to undocumented applicants from their admissions website.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes against a wider backdrop of capitulations from the Ivy League university, which has spent the last month bending over backward to appease the Trump administration\u2019s anti-Palestinian and anti-immigrant agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(pullquote)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22PULLQUOTE%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%22pull%22%3A%22right%22%7D) --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"stylized pull-right\" data-shortcode-type=\"pullquote\" data-pull=\"right\"><p><!-- CONTENT(pullquote)[0] -->The website recently went dark, with a message reading \u201caccess denied.\u201d<!-- END-CONTENT(pullquote)[0] --><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(pullquote)[0] --><\/p>\n<p>The webpage<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250220154855\/https:\/undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu\/apply\/process\/undocumented\">, featured on Columbia University\u2019s admissions site<\/a> as of last month, guided undocumented applicants on how to apply to the university and receive financial aid. The page touted the university\u2019s commitment to diversity and its commitment to meeting 100 percent of the demonstrated financial aid needs of all applicants, including undocumented and international students.<\/p>\n<p>The website, however, recently went dark, with a message reading \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu\/apply\/process\/undocumented#:~:text=Yes.,students%2C%20regardless%20of%20citizenship%20status.\">access denied<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the page\u2019s disappearance was intentional, but the timing raises questions. (Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)<\/p>\n<p>Columbia University has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/08\/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel\/\">significant criticism<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/15\/appeasing-trump-doesnt-work\/\">acquiescing<\/a> to the Trump administration as it continues a full-on assault against the university\u2019s noncitizen student body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(promote-post)[1](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22PROMOTE_POST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%22slug%22%3A%22immigrants%22%2C%22crop%22%3A%22promo%22%7D) -->  <\/p>\n<aside class=\"promote-banner\">\n    <a class=\"promote-banner__link\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/collections\/the-war-on-immigrants\/\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"promote-banner__image\"><br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"promote-banner__text\">\n<p class=\"promote-banner__eyebrow\">\n            Read Our Complete Coverage          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n  <\/aside>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(promote-post)[1] -->\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-trump-attacks\"><strong>Trump Attacks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Earlier<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/13\/briefing-podcast-mahmoud-khalil-free-speech\/\"> this month<\/a>, federal immigration officials<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/13\/mahmoud-khalil-legal-free-speech-deport\/\"> detained<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/19\/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-suspension-gaza-protests\/\">prominent Palestinian student activist<\/a> and permanent resident, <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/11\/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana\/\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, without charging him with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Department of Justice<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-3a8db6e646b786a721089a6f0bc8d9fc\"> announced<\/a> an investigation into whether Columbia was sheltering undocumented immigrants on campus. The announcement came after federal officials raided dorms last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also targeted the university with $400 million in cuts to federal grants. Despite having some of the<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/08\/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel\/\"> most aggressive anti-protest crackdowns in the nation<\/a>, federal officials alleged that the school has not done enough to root out antisemitism \u2014 which both the university and the Trump administration<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/06\/17\/israel-columbia-antisemitism-task-force-zionism\/\"> conflate <\/a>with nearly any criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(cta)[2](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22CTA%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%7D) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(cta)[2] --><\/p>\n<p>Despite the administration\u2019s attacks, Columbia University\u2019s response continues to be <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/15\/appeasing-trump-doesnt-work\/\">appeasement<\/a> and escalating crackdowns<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/15\/appeasing-trump-doesnt-work\/\"> <\/a>on their own students, even as schools with smaller endowments <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2025\/03\/georgetown-william-treanor-ed-martin-trump-doj-dei.html\">fight back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/columbia-is-nearing-agreement-to-give-trump-what-he-wants-14315bb3?st=QuZn3t&amp;reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink\">reportedly<\/a> nearing an agreement to give into a list of demands from the Trump administration to unlock the federal grants, which include banning masks; ramping up campus policing; and placing the school\u2019s Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies departments under receivership, which would give control of the departments to an outside party.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the university moved last week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2025\/03\/13\/ujb-issues-expulsions-degree-revocations-and-suspensions-for-hamilton-hall-occupation\/\">expel, suspend, and even revoke degrees<\/a> from students who participated in on-campus ceasefire demonstrations over the past year and a half. 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After a one-day interim suspension, however, the school dropped those charges and, according to Khalil, <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/19\/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-suspension-gaza-protests\/\">apologized for bringing them<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- BLOCK(promote-related-post)[4](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22PROMOTE_RELATED_POST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Atrue%7D)(%7B%22relatedPostNumber%22%3A1%7D) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END-BLOCK(promote-related-post)[4] --><\/p>\n<p>In a statement from a detention center in Louisiana this week, Khalil called out Columbia for creating the conditions that led to his imprisonment by the Trump administration and for kowtowing to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing\u2009\u2014\u2009based on racism and disinformation \u2014 to go unchecked,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/top-stories\/latest\/mahmoud-khalil-letter-columbia-protest-trump-rcna197037\">wrote Khalil<\/a>, referring to former President Minouche Shafik and current interim head Katrina Armstrong, as well as Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs, from which he graduated. \u201cColumbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColumbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration\u2019s latest threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/03\/19\/columbia-undocumented-students-admissions-guidance\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University appears to have removed a webpage giving guidance to undocumented applicants from their admissions website. The move comes against a wider backdrop of capitulations from the Ivy League university, which has spent the last month bending over backward to appease the Trump administration\u2019s anti-Palestinian and anti-immigrant agenda.\u00a0 The website recently went dark, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunowner-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}