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Referring to illegal immigrants as an “alien invasion” on a flyer apparently crossed the line for Virginia Tech’s student budget board.

The student officials yanked funding from the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter for the next two semesters after the group brought conservative activist Bay Buchanan, the former U.S. treasurer, for a talk on immigration, according to YAF spokeswoman Ashley Pratte, writing in Breitbart:

The Student Budget Board contacted [chapter chair] Lauren [McCue] to tell her that her club would not be funded for the next two semesters because her event “violated the principles of community.” …

Finally, Lauren set a meeting with the Student Budget Board, and they explained to her that they “had an issue” funding the event in the first place because the speaker was Bay Buchanan. Max Frischman, the head of the Student Budget Board (who didn’t attend the event) told the YAF Chapter that if they had known the topic was going to be immigration—something that “would create a problem on campus when there isn’t one—they never would’ve approved the funding for it.”

YAF, according to Frischman, likes to “push buttons.”

The Collegiate Times has more:

In a formal online letter, the Latino Association of Student Organizations said the fliers violated Virginia Tech’s Principles of Community. The group said three of the principles were not met, including the idea of “the common humanity.”

In the letter, LASO said events like this evoke a sense of “otherness” when it comes to undocumented immigrants.

“The Virginia Tech community must send a clear message that discriminatory rhetoric will not be tolerated because it is not what we as Hokies stand for,” LASO said in the letter.

Buchanan didn’t apologize for the flyer: “Let’s all be real grown ups and accept that the country needs vibrant debates.”

Read the Breitbart and Times articles.

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