SUNY Buffalo booting migrants from dorms over student safety concerns, critic rips move as prejudice

[Kamaji]

SUNY Buffalo booting migrants from dorms over student safety concerns, critic rips move as prejudiced

By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon   
August 20, 2023

SUNY Buffalo State University is evicting 44 migrants from its dorms after parents raised concerns over student safety — but an asylum-seeker advocate claims the move smacks of prejudice.

Officials at the state university abruptly canceled an agreement with a local community group that placed dozens of migrants at the upstate school in May — citing parental worries in the wake of separate sex-assault charges against two migrants bused north from New York City, Buffalo News reported.

“As we are welcoming our students back to campus Tuesday, we wanted to ensure the best possible learning environment for our students and smooth functioning of our university operations,” interim school President Bonia Durand said in a statement, according to the outlet.

“I made the difficult decision to discontinue the revocable permit and want to reassure our university community that as our students return to campus Tuesday they will find their learning environment as they expected,” she said.

The school cut a deal with Jericho Road Community Health Center to house the migrants in the dorms from May through August after local shelters reached capacity.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/20/suny-buffalo-booting-migrants-from-dorms-over-student-safety-concerns-but-critic-rips-move-as-prejudiced/

[mountaineer]

parental worries in the wake of separate sex-assault charges

Seems like common sense to me.