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.
Here are a few selected ICE headlines reported by the Bee (and a few about fraud and the risible Tim Walz):
– ICE is getting so scary that illegal immigrants are thinking of leaving US
– Support for ICE skyrockets to 99% after halftime show
– ICE agents disguise themselves as capitol police so Democrats will defend them
– Room full of pedophiles protests ICE deporting pedophiles
– Dems warn ICE crackdowns will make illegal aliens afraid to vote
– After learning of anti-ICE Target protest, wife announces she too will stand up for immigrants by spending all day in Target
– Chicago mayor hopes his ICE-free zones work better than his gun-free zones
– Prince Harry asks ICE to deport him to Gitmo for some peace and quiet
– Illegal immigrants helpfully wave national flags so ICE knows where to send them
– Tearful Trump ends deportations after seeing celebrities wearing “ICE OUT” pins
– WNBA players vow to continue missing layups until ICE withdraws from Minnesota
– Impressed by their setting up checkpoints to demand papers, Trump hires protesters to join Border Patrol
– Tim Walz calls in Somali military to fight against ICE
– Tim Walz says he will do anything to keep Minnesota residence safe except cooperate with federal law enforcement
– Tim Walz emerges from den to declare six more weeks of rioting and fraud
– Tim Walz retiring to spend more time in prison
– Tim Walz offers journalists free tampons to stop talking about fraud scandal
– Tim Walz says he never would have had affair with Chinese communist official’s daughter if he had known she was a woman
– Tim Walz polling strong among men who choose middle urinal
awesome, but closer to reality than it should be!
These Leftists remind me of the Mao youth during the Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge teens who willingly hammered the heads of those who held impure thoughts about Communism and the Collective.
A million deaths in Cambodia by the hand of PolPot and the Khmer Rouge…
Seems to me the best job candidates for ICE, as well as for many other government agencies and private employers as well, won’t be found on these leftist university campuses anyways. Perhaps they should reevaluate their recruiting strategy? Why try to hire people who have spent four years or more being politically propagandized rather than actually educated in something useful?
ICE on campus is threatening a “safe and inclusive” environment? Get real
The students, & faculty, need to look in the mirror and ask why they are so much against law enforcement. By doing so they are stifling the opinions of others, which is the beginnings of a Gestapo to silence their thoughts.
Higher education in colleges & universities is supposed to be a time of expressing thoughts & ideas with others, not lambasting those with whom they disagree. Students need to understand they are not in charge, and if they aren’t open to discussion with others, then they are the gestapo.
Re: The students and faculty…
Hoisting themselves by their own petards, they are,