Sorry if posted before, but the universities are going to be in a world or hurt by doing this, they’re basically admitting they are owned by China

Multiple Universities Refuse to Cooperate with Federal Investigations into Ties to China

Several universities around the nation are currently under investigation by the Department of Education over their alleged financial ties to the Chinese government. A report published this week suggests that many universities are refusing to comply with a standard request to produce internal documents.

According to a report by the College Fix, several universities and colleges that are under investigation by the Department of Education are refusing to release internal documents that may contain evidence of undisclosed financial grants from the Chinese government.

The report claims that lawyers for several universities refused to comply with a request to produce documents, arguing that they were entitled to privacy under “Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges.” A letter from the Department of Education did not name the universities and colleges that have refused to comply with the request for documents.

Department of Education General Counsel Reed Rubinstein believes that many American universities and colleges have been compromised by foreign governments, China being one of the primary governments in question. “However, the evidence suggests massive investments of foreign money have bred dependency and distorted the decision making, mission, and values of too many institutions,” Rubinstein said.

The Department of Education announced in February that it would investigate Harvard and Yale over their failure to disclose millions of dollars in gifts from foreign governments.

Universities and colleges are, however, entitled to some privacy due to the structure of the United States government. Rubinstein noted that the Department of Education will not be permitted to publicly release all of the documents that they receive from universities and colleges.

“Inappropriate disclosure of confidential information could lead to separation of powers concerns and will certainly impair the factfinding and enforcement work Congress has authorized us to do,” Rubinstein added.

Breitbart News reported this week that Case Western Reserve Professor Qing Wang was arrested over his undisclosed financial ties with the Chinese government. Wang had reportedly failed to disclose his affiliations with several Chinese universities when applying for a multi-million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research he was conducting at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/21/multiple-universities-refuse-to-cooperate-with-federal-investigations-into-ties-to-china/

Trump Shuts Huge Migrant Pipeline Run by Coyotes, Federal Agencies

President Donald Trump and his deputies have shut down the coyote-run smuggling pipeline that has used federal agencies to deliver almost 500,000 youths and children to their illegal-alien parents living in northern cities.

The success in closing the 12-year-old “Unaccompanied Alien Child”‘ pipeline was admitted by the New York Times:

Hundreds of migrant children and teenagers have been swiftly deported by American authorities amid the coronavirus pandemic without the opportunity to speak to a social worker or plea for asylum from the violence in their home countries — a reversal of years of established practice for dealing with young foreigners who arrive in the United States.

The deportations represent an extraordinary shift in policy that has been unfolding in recent weeks on the southwestern border, under which safeguards that have for decades been granted to migrant children by both Democratic and Republican administrations appear to have been abandoned.

The shutdown is allowed by the combination of China’s coronavirus and by Congress’s Title 42 law. The Title 42 law allows border agents to block any migrants coming across the border at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it trumps the 2008 law that created the coyote/agency pipeline.

On May 20, Chad Wolf, chief of the Department of Homeland Security, said that CDC had ordered the Title 42 barrier to continue indefinitly, “until it is determined that the serious danger from #COVID19 has ceased.”

The Associated Press showed May 14 how Trump’s 2020 changes surprised a Honduran mother in Mexico who had watched the UAC pipeline work for years:

When she lost an initial [aslum legal] decision, she decided [the 10-year-old boy] would be better off temporarily with her brother in the United States. She watched him swim across the Rio Grande.

The woman expected he would be treated the same as before, when such children were picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol and taken to Department of Health and Human Services facilities for eventual placement with a sponsor, usually a relative.

But the mother heard nothing until six days later, when her family received a call from a shelter in Honduras. “They had thrown him out to Honduras,” she said. “We didn’t know anything.”

The New York Times added a comment from the “shocked” uncle in Houston:

“I’m not going to tell you that we were going to shower him with riches,” Mr. Rodríguez said. “We’re poor, but we were going to fight to support him. We were going to welcome him like he deserved.”

The two articles did not mention the child’s father. In all likelihood, he may have traveled illegally to his brother in Houston, while fully expecting the federal agencies to deliver his child to Houston.

Democrats, however, are fighting to reopen the UAC pipeline’s delivery of migrant youths and children to the illegal-immigrant parents and relatives:

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/05/21/donald-trump-shuts-huge-migrant-pipeline-run-by-coyotes-federal-agencies/

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Education Dept. Uncovers Billions In Unreported Foreign Donations From China and Russia to US Colleges

The Department of Education told House Republicans, during a briefing and in a letter, their investigation into

Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) for foreign investments and donations has so far uncovered $6 billion of previously unreported foreign donations from known adversarial countries

The briefing and the letter are the result of House Republicans' inquiry into U.S. colleges being investigated by the Education Department for violating Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which prohibits an IHE from improperly reporting or failing to report foreign gifts of $250,000 or more, as part of their wider probe into the Chinese Communist Party's influence within the United States.

In the letter, which was obtained by Townhall, from the DoE's Office of the General Counsel that was sent to Congress on May 19, they wrote, "Some IHE leaders are starting to acknowledge the threat of foreign academic espionage and have been working with federal law enforcement to address gaps in reporting and transparency. However, the evidence suggests massive investments of foreign money have bred dependency and distorted the decision making, mission, and values of too many institutions."

"The Department shares Congress’ concerns regarding unreported and unregulated foreign direct investment into the U.S. higher education system, and the potential for foreign sources to use strategic investments to turn American college campuses into indoctrination platforms," they added.

While the investigations into the IHEs are still ongoing, the DoE wrote they have been met with some resistance (emphasis mine):

"In this case, the Department has a strong interest in protecting the confidentiality and integrity of its investigations. Inappropriate disclosure of confidential information could lead to separation of powers concerns and will certainly impair the factfinding and enforcement work Congress has authorized us to do.

"Furthermore, the Department has yet to receive critical information needed to confirm the accuracy of previously submitted Section 117 reports. Certain institutions have yet to produce requested emails, metadata, and other information regarding business relationships with, and faculty funding from, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Russian foreign sources. The Department is negotiating for this important information and hopes to have access to all relevant records (and witness interviews, if appropriate) in the near term.

"At the same time, the Department is evaluating its available statutory and regulatory options if negotiations and compromise fail. Finally, we are consulting with the U.S. Department of Justice and others to explore all potential pathways for full and fair disclosure of IHE foreign funding under Section 117."

The reason for the delay in the documents from the universities is because their counsel has contacted the DoE and "claimed Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges to block record production to Congress. Although we are concerned there may be evidence suggesting certain institutions could be 'overmarking' documents with business information confidentiality and privilege claims, the Department believes it may be constrained to withhold certain records from you that might otherwise be appropriately produced in a constitutionally mandated accommodation."

The DoE told House committee staffers they have found evidence some colleges base their decisions on the foreign donations they receive, according to two House GOP sources on the briefing call.

"This is not a partisan problem. This is an American problem," a GOP source with knowledge of the matter told Townhall.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/05/22/education-dept-billions-unreported-foreign-donations-china-russia-n2569281