{"id":2597421,"date":"2026-05-01T04:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-seriously-says-if-affirmative-action-is-illegal-so-is-enforcing-immigration-law-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:44:17","slug":"ny-times-seriously-says-if-affirmative-action-is-illegal-so-is-enforcing-immigration-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-seriously-says-if-affirmative-action-is-illegal-so-is-enforcing-immigration-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Seriously Says If Affirmative Action Is Illegal, So Is Enforcing Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-seriously-says-if-affirmative-action-is-illegal-so-is-enforcing-immigration-law-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2597421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The new York Times drew attention for arguing-controversially-that if it\u2019s unconstitutional for colleges and universities to racially discriminate in admissions, then it should also be unconstitutional to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-recall-petition-close-to-success\/\" title=\"Newsom Recall Petition Close To Success\">enforce immigration laws<\/a> in ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-coke-pauses-diversity-plan-after-intense-backlash-plan-author-suddenly-resigns\/\" title=\"\u2018Woke... Coke Pauses Diversity Plan After \u2018Intense Backlash,... Plan Author Suddenly Resigns\">treat people differently based<\/a> on race. yes-**that argument has been attributed to a controversial New York Times editorial stance**: if it\u2019s unconstitutional to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-group-sues-yale-for-discrimination-revives-trump-era-case\/\" title=\"Student Group Sues Yale for Discrimination, Revives Trump-Era Case\">race-based discrimination<\/a> in **college admissions**,then,the paper argued,similar constitutional limits should apply to **immigration enforcement practices** that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >allegedly treat people differently based<\/a> on race (or produce racially disparate outcomes).<\/p>\n<p>If you want, I can help identify **the specific article\/editorial** you\u2019re referring to (title\/date) if you share any keywords or the approximate time period.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Immigration sob stories are a dime a dozen in The New York Times, but an argument the paper made this week opposing immigration law enforcement is truly one for the history books. In earnest, the Times said if it\u2019s unconstitutional for colleges and universities to racially discriminate in their admissions process, it should also be [\u2026]\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT\u2019s anti-immigration enforcement argument is rare-and historic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2597424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ICE-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[40921,33274,33810,78854,62686],"class_list":["post-2597421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-affirmative-action","tag-civil-rights","tag-immigration-law","tag-legal-policy","tag-ny-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ICE-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597426,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597421\/revisions\/2597426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}