NYT: firing of undocumented workers "a consuming debate over what it means to be a liberal college"

[pampango]

10. Some of the college's students, faculty and alumni have a different view of how a liberal college

should handle such a situation.

Are you assuming that this liberal college "knowingly hired people who lack work authorization?"? Sounds to me like they initiated the investigation and then took action when 17 were shown to lack documentation.

Liberals sometimes disagree on how to balance the human vs legal aspects of illegal immigration. Conservatives rarely seem to have this difference of opinion within their ranks. If this had been a conservative, religious college, I doubt that many of the students, faculty or alumni would be doing anything other than suggesting that we deport them all.