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‘Impermissible’: Utah public universities can’t be sanctuary campuses, higher ed boss says

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Utah’s top higher education leader says it is “impermissible” for any public college or university in the state to designate itself a “sanctuary campus” — a label that indicates a school’s promise to protect immigrant students from deportation. That guidance from Geoff Landward, commissioner over the Utah System of Higher Education (or USHE), came in a letter released this week.

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