Recently, ICE was compelled to withdraw from a job fair at Arizona State University following protests by faculty and students. Now, students will also be prevented from speaking with ICE at another job fair at the University of Maine, according to The Maine Campus.
ICE was removed from the list of employers on the university website following the outcry.
Various student groups and the UMaine Graduate Workers Union demanded that ICE not appear on campus. The Union posted a call for a protest, declaring, “Our campus community is safer without CBP on campus. It’s UMaine’s responsibility to protect all students and employees from possible targeting. We demand CBP be uninvited from this event!”
False rumors were spread about ICE raids scheduled to coincide with the visit, an obviously ridiculous claim meant to spread panic and protests.
These employees and students have succeeded in keeping other students from seeking badly needed jobs. They are effectively demanding that others limit their choices to employers that they find acceptable. The university has been largely silent during this controversy. The university should have (as did my own university) reaffirmed that this agency and other federal agencies are welcome to speak with any students who are interested in a career with the federal government. Instead, it simply released a weak statement about “ensur[ing] a safe, inclusive and productive event focused on student success.”
President Joan Ferrini-Mundy should advocate for students who want access to this agency on campus. The union members and these protesters have the freedom to make their own employment choices. They should not dictate such choices for others.
Watching the bondi hearing opening and I think it’s safe to say Jim Jordan could say every word of his opening comments with trump’s balls in his mouth…
Oh wait…, trumps’s balls ARE in his mouth.
I keep waiting for the arc of the show DEXTER to intersect with the arc of ICE/CBP abduction teams. Perhaps a Turley approved college job fair will be the place.
If China ever copies the hiring your own Astro-Turf, we are done for.
Presuming the interest at both schools to listen to the offerings of CBP, ICE and any other Federal organization would be the minority of the school population, isn’t it hypocritical to not allow it given the penchant for the left to prioritize the minority. Or is it just the minority they of their preference?
End Federal Aid to colleges, cities, states, non-profits
outlaw public unions, they are the army of the democrats, funded by taxpayers!
Would fix 90% of problems
“False rumors were spread about ICE raids scheduled to coincide with the visit, an obviously ridiculous claim meant to spread panic and protests.”
False rumors? You dont say! Just like the anti-ICE people in Minneapolis who cornered some IT guys having lunch and demanded they show them their ID, and demanded they say, “F— ICE!” When they refused, one woman said, “If you are not with us, you are against us!”
Imagine that. Leftists wanting to control people of what they think and say.
What moron HR Fed employee thought that was a great idea to recruit at Deep Blue State University? Typical In-the-Box Bureaucrat non-solution to a problem and they wonder why citizens think they are all nit wits. The woke 20-Something Unemployed Recent Grads are not yet desperate as they are living with Coddling Mom and Dad. Once the Simpleton Parents figure out they are just ATM’s, maid service, and Door Dash they may eject Biff and Barbie and then the desire to earn a living will make more jobs appealing. Until then the Feds should use the other channels to advertise – still plenty of Desperados out there!
Moron? Your rant indicates an irrational thought process. In fact, a very very smart move. How else to make inroads?
In the ’80s, I was able to pay for school by winning an ROTC scholarship and committing to serve 8 years after graduation. The program, and my subsequent service, were tremendous blessings for me. Although this was the early “80s, there were still some schools with faculty members and students sadly stuck in the Vietnam era anti-military mindset. Several schools banned ROTC from campus, thus depriving students of the tremendous opportunity to be able to pay for school, and to benefit from the unrivaled leadership development that the military offered. I never understood the bans – it seemed the height of arrogance to remove opportunity for others in order to serve your political whims, but the leftists who led these movements were nothing if not sure and self-righteous about their actions.
Since Arizona State and the Universuty of Maine don’t want ICE (legitimate Federal agencies)to be allowed at their job fair, I would suggest that the Federal Government as a whole reject all job applications from those universities. There are plenty of other applicants from other schools to fill Federal Government jobs without students from AZ State and U of Maine.
Rick, blacklisting graduates would contradict the very principle at stake. Federal agencies do not need a campus booth to recruit. If someone truly wants the job, they will seek it out. Self-government begins with self-direction.
Do not need a booth? That’s a naïve opinion. Ever think their social and political impact of their on campus recruitment presence? Na, didn’t think so.
I am less concerned with symbolism and more concerned with process. Federal agencies operate under law, not feelings. Students operate under free choice. Follow the law, preserve access, and trust individuals to exercise reason. If someone wants the job, they can pursue it. That is how self-government works.
OLLY,
By their words and actions, they do not want something like self-government or for others to have the freedom of choice to got to a ICE booth or not. They operate from not law but from emotions.
” I would suggest that the Federal Government as a whole reject all job applications from those universities.”but I
Meh. I understand the motivation for your suggestion, but I think that the effects would be non (or possibly counter productive). Initially it would adversely impact only students, who may well not have been aware that their chosen college would behave in this manner, while any negative effect on the colleges would occur only through a potential decrease in enrollment, and if that should even occur, it would be years in the making. I would more favor an immediate halt to any Federal monies going to those institutions, and immediate suspension of any other Federal preferences they might enjoy. That, at least, would immediately target the sources of the problem.
Tit for tat… retribution is an effective policy you think? Any adult s in the room this morning?
Rick
That’s punishment for graduates that have no say in the argument. A better solution would be to cut or greatly reduce any and all federal funding for that State University.
I’d go further. If it were legal, I would ban federal research grants to such schools and make students at these schools ineligible for federal student loans and grants. That should wake-up the college administrators and college presidents.
The Democrats continue their 150 year legacy as the party of insurrection.
We often use the term self-government to describe the constitutional structure we establish and are responsible for maintaining. But self-government also has a more personal meaning.
It begins with governing ourselves.
A republic requires citizens who can manage their emotions, tolerate disagreement, respect the rights of others, and engage with reason rather than reaction. That is the foundation of self-reliance. It is not only economic. It is moral and civic.
If students cannot encounter a lawful federal agency without demanding its removal, and if administrators cannot withstand pressure long enough to preserve open access, that reflects a weakness in both forms of self-government.
We cannot expect to govern a nation well if we have not first learned to govern ourselves. The capacity for self-rule externally depends entirely on the capacity for self-control internally.
That is the standard a free society requires.
Oh look, it Olly the Clown, Dance for us Olly. You didn’t include any references the The Founding Fathers?
Cat got his tongue. Founding fathers? That’s funny.
Anon: God you’re a pathetic loser!
Olly: Spot on as many of the founder’s statements allude to in the preamble of the Constitution.
Professor Turley doesn’t seem to realize just how toxic ICE and the CBP have become. Nobody except racists and bigots with militant fantasies.
We already know DHS has been lowering standards and physical fitness requirements to meet the Stephen Miller’s demand for more recruits to meet his outlandish deportation goals. Recruits who barely know how to read or even understand what the laws they are supposed to follow are allowed in the field.
If students don’t want ICE in their school it’s their right to call for it. Those who, for some grotesque interest want to seek employment with ICE and CBP can still do so outside campus. They can always fill out an application online. Right?
DHS has already been shown to be a lawless institution. Lying, ignoring court orders, arresting legal immigrant and asylum seekers who have done everything the law requires, forcing their way into homes without warrants and denying detainees access to a lawyer. Even experienced prosecutors won’t volunteer to try cases with clear violations of law and disobeying court orders. DHS is so incompetent that i couldn’t’ be surprised if it is scrapped by a new administration.
Heck, even the Italians know how bad ICE is. They clearly don’t want them in their country. They have to cover their faces because they know everyone hates them, except the racists and bigots who don’t care. The true fascists of this country.
Nonsense! Go sit in a corner and suck your thumb rather than clutter up this website … because you refuse to get medical care for the TDS that afflicts you.
George, another good one. But noticeably facts are missing, instead you inserted lies.
Why go to Job Fairs. Much Recruiting and interviewing is done on line and over the phone in a whole host of occupations.
Just contact ICE.gov online and avoid the crowds and posters.
You should read the other comments GEB. Put your glasses on first.
So what’s the big deal? If those students want to talk with ICE recruiters, they can easily make contact thru different channels. Right? problem solved right? Not really according to MAGAotts, they are offended that some people reject their ideology. Oh, but this different right? How so?
Turley made no mention if the kids publicly complained. Turley is pulling your collective chains.
“. . . others limit their choices to employers that they find acceptable.” (JT)
Yet again, the Left’s desire to control others oozes to the surface.
The individual’s mind is too impotent to discern good versus bad information. Let’s have a Speech Czar.
The individual is too crooked to handle freedom. Let’s jettison the Constitution.
And now: Individual students are incapable of deciding their own careers. We’ll choose for them a “noble” path.
And the rights desire to control others oozes to the surface.. Fixed it.
So the snowflakes at the University of Maine must be protected from an agency that doesn’t fit with their personal beliefs, even if this requires dishonesty. The administrators were willing to sacrifice their personal integrity on the altar of pandering to the political opinions of students and faculty. What should have been used as an exercise in tolerance of diverse opinions is instead a poor example and a failure to help students learn how to deal with differing opinions in the real world.
Differing opinions? Seems to me you have an issue with differing opinions too.
Gotta love those MAGAotts.
So much for the supposedly “pro-choice” left. Fascists can’t bear the thought of a student actually making a choice to work for ICE, or at least hearing different perspectives. No group is less tolerant of varied opinions than leftwing fascists.
I’m sorry- now who are the fascists? So hard to keep track these days..
They’re the ones who want to force their will on others in the name of live, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Life. Fixed it.
Union members. Nuff said.