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VOLUME 95 I ISSUE 3
Bannon criticizes Catholic Church’s
support of DACA program
Jason Munoz | Loyolan
LMU students and faculty alike march down Palm Walk in support after Trump announced his plan to rescind the program. The Catholic Chuch also showed support for DACA recipients.
Steve Bannon question’s the
Catholic church’s support of
DACA.
Jackie Galvez
Managing Editor
@LALoyolan
“[The Catholic Church] needs illegal
aliens to fill the churches,” Former White
House Chief Strategist, Stephen Bannon
said in his “60 Minutes” segment.
“They have an economic interest in
unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal
immigration.”
Bannon — a catholic — said that the
Catholic Church’s support of the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program is an economic strategy aimed at
the institution’s need to gain more active
members in the church, according to CNN.
Bannon made these comments during
a “60 Minutes” interview which aired
Sunday evening, five days after the Trump
administration formally announced the
rescinding of the DACA program.
According to a study done by the Pew
ResearchCenter,overaquarter of American
Catholics immigrated from another
country, the majority coming from the
Americas. Additionally, one out of three
American Catholics identify as Latino or
Hispanic. A majority of documented and
undocumented immigrants who come to
the United States identify as Christians,
according to Pew Research. Of the legal
immigrants, 61 percent were Christian in
2012, a number that can be compared to
83 percent of undocumented immigrants.
As reportedby C NN , the Catholic Church
has never implemented special treatment
or policy to benefit immigrant members of
their community.
LMU theology professor Cecilia
Gonzalez-Andrieu appeared on television
during evening news segments aired
on KCBSTV-LA and KCAL 9 News to
speak on this topic, expressing concern
for the misrepresentation of Catholic
teaching Bannon may be causing with his
statements.
“[Bannon’s comments regarding the
Catholic Church’s support of DACA are]
plainly, logically, wrong,” Gonzalez-
Andrieu said in her interview. “Because
when you care for the vulnerable and you
care for the maligned people of society
— which is what the Church is doing
throughout the world — that does not fill
your coffers; it drains them.”
See DACA | Page 4
Megan Karbowski | Loyolan
In Case You Missed It
A panel focused on the presence of Confederate monuments in America was held by the
departments of African American studies and history on Sept. 6. Additionally, a discussion
was hosted by the political science department, in collaboration with Jewish studies and
African American studies, about the violence and hate in Charlottesville on Sept. 7.
For the full graphic, see Page 4.
DeVos to review
Title IX guidelines
DeVos plans to change the
way sexual assaults are
handled on college campuses.
Kellie Chudzinski
Editor in Chief
@LALoyolan
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
announced her intention to eventually rescind
current Title IX sexual assault guidelines, in
an interview with CBS News .
The interview came after DeVos gave a
speech at George Mason University on Sept. 7
to announce her department will be reviewing
the Title IX guidelines. In her announcement,
DeVos said she believes both the victims and
the accused lose in the current system and
that “the era of rule by letter is over.”
DeVos referenced the 2011 “Dear
Colleague” letter that, provided universities
with guidelines and examples of “Title IX
requirements and how they relate to sexual
harassment and sexual violence,” Title IX
Coordinator Sara Trivedi told the Loyolan
via email.
DeVos announced that the current policy
will be reviewed and replaced. The process
will involve a public input process, according
to the Washington Post. DeVos alleged that
the current definition of sexual assault was
too broad and shared stories from victims and
accused, who she referred to as “victims of
due process.”
Of the many factors DeVos mentioned
in her speech, the “Dear Colleague” letter
lowered the burden of proof of sexual assault
to a “preponderance of the evidence,” rather
than clear and convincing evidence. Title IX
investigations therefore only needed to prove
the sexual assault occurred by 51 percent,
according to VOX.
Supporters of reform such as New York
Post columnist Karol Markowicz said that the
Obama -era process was unfair, citing the lack
of lawyers provided to student defendants in a
process that affects their academic future.
Title IX, as part of the Education
Amendment of 1972, requires universities,
in order to receive federal funding, to not
discriminate on the basis of sex. The “Dear
Colleague” letter served to reenforce the
understanding that Title IX’s ban on sex
discrimination included sexual violence
among students, discrimination included
sexual violence among students.
See DeVos | Page 2
