US: Hispanic-serving colleges unconstitutional

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that is being challenged in court, declaring the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.

In a memo sent to Congress, the Justice Department said it agrees with a lawsuit attempting to strike down grants that are reserved for colleges and universities where at least a quarter of undergraduates are Hispanic. Congress created the program in 1998 after finding Latino students were going to college and graduating at far lower rates than white students.

Justice Department officials argued the program provides an unconstitutional advantage based on race or ethnicity.

The state of Tennessee and an anti-affirmative action organization sued the U.S. Education Department in June, asking a judge to halt the Hispanic-Serving Institution program. Tennessee argued all of its public universities serve Hispanic students but none meet the “arbitrary ethnic threshold” to be eligible for the grants. Those schools miss out on tens of millions of dollars because of discriminatory requirements, the suit said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/hispanic-colleges-trump-a795fc966590681f41410c2b3e268ac0

 

[Lord Mayhem 3,587]

So to Trump its wrong to be antisemitic but ok to be anti-Hispanic? 

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2 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

So to Trump its wrong to be antisemitic but ok to be anti-Hispanic? 

Yes because there's a lot of rich and powerful Jewish people, Hispanics not so much.

[PartySick 174,197]

This man (almost) won the Latino/Hispanic vote

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1 hour ago, PartySick said:

This man (almost) won the Latino/Hispanic vote

I’d be lying if I said I don’t feel a touch of schadenfreude every time Trump does something disadvantageous to Latino citizens. That demographic needs a wake-up call based on the last election. 

[AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,097]

Ain’t this what the Latino community wanted 

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6 hours ago, jacs vs looser said:

Yes because there's a lot of rich and powerful Jewish people, Hispanics not so much.

Omg

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3 hours ago, PartySick said:

This man (almost) won the Latino/Hispanic vote

Im going to assume those voters were the “started college but didn’t graduate” crowd. Jk, I think those dumb fcks didn’t attend. 

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3 hours ago, PartySick said:

This man (almost) won the Latino/Hispanic vote

Such an embarrassing moment for us.

I can't believe after everything so many people flocked to his "working class" message con. 

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4 hours ago, SpadesToStart said:

I’d be lying if I said I don’t feel a touch of schadenfreude every time Trump does something disadvantageous to Latino citizens. That demographic needs a wake-up call based on the last election. 

Idk girl. I used to consider the Hispanic half of my genetics the "smart half". But judging on post-2016 happenings in this country...idk if that's true anymore  

2 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

Such an embarrassing moment for us.

I can't believe after everything so many people flocked to his "working class" message con. 

Welp. They're paying for it now, one way or another. Prices are up, rent is up, gas is up, bankruptcies are up, layoffs have reached pandemic levels, if they're not kidnapped and shoved into a room to sleep on foil and eat maggots they'll likely be priced out of a comfortable life regardless.