Faculty Unions at U. Chicago Demand School End ‘Inaction’ Against ICE Raids
“It’s sad that one of the leading institutions in the United States chooses to sit on their hands instead of taking the fight to this president and this fascist regime”
Funny. I don’t recall this kind of opposition to ICE at this school when ‘deporter in chief’ Obama was in office.
FOX News reports:
University of Chicago faculty unions demand school end ‘inaction’ against ICE raids
University of Chicago students, staff and faculty union members demanded that the school stop “sitting on [its] hands” and take a stance against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the city during a press conference on Friday.
Representatives from five school unions spoke out against the university’s alleged “inaction” regarding Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement initiative targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records in Chicago.
The operation drew intense backlash from some local residents, including University of Chicago assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi, who was arrested last month on felony charges at an anti-ICE rally.
“Violent kidnappings and assaults by federal agents are not happening in some distant Chicago, beyond ‘the life of the mind,’” assistant professor Diana Schwartz Francisco said, according to The Maroon, the school’s student newspaper. “They’re happening in our neighborhoods. They’re happening right here.”
SEIU Local Union Executive Vice President Jeffrey Howard said that, as a higher institution, the University of Chicago has a duty to push back against what he called the “fascist regime” enacted through the ICE raids.
“To just idly stand on the sideline and say, ‘We’re doing what’s legally required’—it’s not enough.… It’s sad that one of the leading institutions in the United States chooses to sit on their hands instead of taking the fight to this president and this fascist regime,” Howard said.
He added, “University of Chicago, do what you’re charged to do: educate the leaders of the future. And you can’t do that sitting on your hands, allowing the things that are happening on this campus to happen.”
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I wonder if the University of Chicago is now teaching John C. Calhoun’s nullification theory that underpinned the logic for secession by the Confederate states? This would be ironic given that President Lincoln, a son of Illinois, firmly fought against this idea.
If we’re living under a fascist regime, as Jeffrey Howard claims, why isn’t he already cooling his heels in a concentration camp?
University of Chicago not pulling its weight in helping to cement Chicago’s rep as the *hole of America.
What exactly do they want the university to do?
They want armed insurrection, by others of course.
Do they not understand that, if the university hadn’t allowed the illegals on campus in the first place, or the city encouraged them to come to the city, there wouldn’t be any need for ICE actions?