Another former member of the Obama team undermining the Trump administration. What a shock.
Campus Reform reports:
UC system prez fears Trump will ‘isolate and antagonize’ Mexico
University of California system President Janet Napolitano will be taking a three-day trip to Mexico next week to “strengthen ties” with the country as a rebuke of Trump administration policies.
UC spokesperson Dianne Klein told the Associated Press that Napolitano’s trip is intended to “send a very strong and loud message…that we believe it is wrong to isolate and antagonize this important neighbor.”
Klein also remarked that it is currently a “very propitious time to strengthen ties,” citing the Trump administration’s proposed border wall, as well as a preliminary budget proposal released last week that envisions cuts to a variety of research programs, as policies liable to irk Mexico.
The trip is part of the UC-Mexico Initiative that Napolitano launched in 2014, which facilitates academic research and programming between the UC system and institutions in Mexico. Napolitano kicked off the initiative with a two-day trip to Mexico, but no mention was made at the time of any concerns regarding U.S.-Mexico relations.
Napolitano told The Los Angeles Times that she plans to build on this partnership during her trip by reassuring Mexico that the collaboration will continue despite Trump’s plans to build a border wall, increase immigration enforcement, and cut federal research funding, declaring that “Regardless of what is happening federally, the University of California remains open to academic partnerships with Mexico.”
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Hey Janet, how come local kids with 4.2 GPAs can’t get into UCs? Selling all the prime spots for out of state money?
Part of her job is to maximize federal finncial support for the UC system. Publicly rebuking the President seems counter-productive.
Memo for Janet Napolitano: You might want to be careful “rebuking” folks who can effectively defund your institution and put you out of a job.
Say hello to your cartel partners while you are there.
Once she is in Mexico, can’t we just refuse to let her back in?
After a couple of weeks with her, the Mexicans would pay for the wall if we would just take her back!