U. Minnesota Profs ‘Outraged’ Over Border Patrol Jobs Advertised on School Website
“Such a recruitment (inviting our own students to become Border Patrol Agents) is directly connected to the parallel increase in deportations and vagrant human rights abuses”
These professors realize that the Border Patrol existed under Biden and Obama, right?
The College Fix reports:
U. Minnesota professors ‘outraged’ by Border Patrol jobs advertisement on school website
Several University of Minnesota academics reported being “outraged” by an advertisement for a Border Patrol jobs webinar that was hosted — briefly — on the school’s Career Services website.
The head the Chicano and Latino Studies Department, Amelia Montes, reported being “nauseated” after seeing the ad.
“Such a recruitment (inviting our own students to become Border Patrol Agents) is directly connected to the parallel increase in deportations and vagrant human rights abuses,” Montes said according to The Minnesota Daily. (Article author Isabella Wheeldon did not respond to a Fix query about whether Montes meant “vagrant” or “flagrant.”)
Career Services ended up taking down the advertisement before the (virtual) event took place on September 3.
The webinar “aimed to recruit members of the public for roles in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol,” and was “credited” to the career services platform Handshake, not the university itself.
This did not dissuade other faculty from expressing their displeasure.
Michael Gallope, who considers himself an “expert in philosophies, theories, and histories of the struggles against social inequality,” said “It seems impossible to uphold the values of a safe and welcoming environment for international students and students of first-generation migrants while also recruiting students to serve as border patrol agents.”
Gallope (pictured) added that the webinar reminded him of when the CIA held a recruitment on campus in the mid-80s, which resulted in a student occupation of a campus building.
Jimmy Patiño, director of the UMN’s Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender and Sexuality Studies who “seeks to critically excavate alternative imaginings of democratic practice among aggrieved communities in the midst of global capitalism,” said the university was sending mixed messages to students.
“An action like this reveals that on the one hand, you’re sharing resources and rhetoric that you support immigrant students. On the other hand, you’re basically inviting ICE on campus to discuss through career services,” Patiño said.
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Twas ever thus.
In the ’60s and ’70s, the same snowflakes clutched their pearls over recruitment ads and ROTC on campus.
“Vagrant”‘human rights abuses? Do the good professors mean flagrant?
I couldn’t figure out if he meant “vague,” “migrant,” or whether he was just accusing ICE of arresting and deporting the homeless.
I took it to mean that they were abusing the rights of vagrants.