U. Florida Students Protest Deal to Cooperate with ICE
“We’re just going to keep escalating until hopefully they listen to us”
The left has decided that ICE is evil and must be resisted at every turn. Of course, none of this happened when Obama was deporting people, for some reason.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Florida students protest deal to cooperate with ICE
Students and community members recently participated in an anti-ICE protest organized by a socialist student group on one of Florida’s largest campuses.
Approximately 200 students and community members gathered on Nov. 5 on the University of Florida’s campus to protest the school’s recent deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the Independent Florida Alligator.
The university signed a 287(g) agreement with ICE earlier this year, Campus Reform previously reported.
The agreement refers to Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which empowers ICE “to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight,” according to the agency’s webpage.
UF’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America organized the protest, writing in an Instagram post, “The UF Administration’s support of ICE and the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda is unacceptable, so we will be demanding that they hear our demands presented in our petition.”
“They shouldn’t be out here making people feel more unsafe, especially people who might be illegal immigrants and might need that chance,” one student protester remarked when asked about ICE’s involvement with local law enforcement.
“We’re just going to keep escalating until hopefully they listen to us,” said another student protester and YDSA member who criticized the school’s role in the arrest of Felipe Zapata Velasquez.
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“We’re just going to keep escalating until hopefully they listen to us,”
Yes, that’s the leftist strategy. The question is whether it will work in Florida. I suspect not.
And 200 students out of 54,000 is 0.37 percent.
Well if they keep escalating then they might succeed in getting themselves ‘deported’ – either expelled or jailed depending on the degree of escalation. But that’s a form of success right?
“They shouldn’t be out here making people feel more unsafe, especially people who might be illegal immigrants”
That there is stupid that you could heat a small town with.
That’s fine. We’ve heard you loud and clear. The answer is “no”.
Escalating how? Next time you’ll peacefully protest with 300 people? 400 people? Feel free. This is America, and that is your right. But the answer is still going to be “no”.
But if you escalate by not protesting peacefully, then we’re going to have a problem. The kind of problem that results in expulsion and/or arrest.