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The following is a summary of this Breitbart article:
A resolution passed by the student government at the University of California, Irvine, seeks giving admissions preference, housing, and funding to college-aged “Syrian” refugees. The resolution passed unanimously in the student senate on October 18, and must be approved by a committee before being passed to the University administration for approval. The decision was made behind closed doors.
The bill cites other Universities who are already doing the same, such as Illinois Institute of Technology, Bryn Mawr College, Michigan State University, and the University of Southern California.
UCI College Republicans President Ariana Rowlands expressed her concern about the process by which this decision was made. “… I have a problem with a closed student government politically and artificially endorsing policy measures that limits the ability of every prospective UC Irvine student to attain one of a finite amount of seats at this university by favoring non-American over American students. This top-down decision made by the student senators behind closed doors has yet to be announced publicly and does not represent the student body of UC Irvine but rather, represents the social justice objectives of the elite. … Taking seats away from deserving American citizens and giving them to refugees is just political pandering at the expense of citizens already here, further requiring them to look to government for a handout, in turn furthering government’s power,” She said.
An October 20 statement posted to the UC College Republicans Facebook page said, “We cannot allow political correctness to overshadow reality,” the statement read. “While it would be ideal that our system allows us to help all those in want, such is not possible if a fair, merit-based, financially stable system is to be upheld.”