Left Wing Student Groups at Rutgers March Against ICE
“Students for Justice in Palestine, the Young Democratic Socialists of America Rutgers chapter and the Climate Revolution Action Network”
They also presented the school with a list of demands. How are they in a position to do that?
The College Fix reports:
Rutgers University leftist student coalition marches against ICE
This past Tuesday, a coalition of progressive student groups from Rutgers University took to the streets to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, and to present school officials with a list of demands.
According to The Daily Targum, the People Power Coalition — which includes Students for Justice in Palestine, the Young Democratic Socialists of America Rutgers chapter and the Climate Revolution Action Network — previously had presented Rutgers officials with a set of 14 demands which it said “must” be addressed by September 1.
But administrators “failed to meet or agree to” that deadline.
The coalition’s demands include making it “official policy” that campus police will not cooperate with ICE, “continued support” for “cultural centers for vulnerable communities,” and an official statement that Rutgers will “affirm” protection of “undocumented, immigrant, and international students, transgender students, and students of color.”
In addition, PPC representative Brea Yumiguano, who identifies as non-binary, “intended” to have a meeting with Rutgers Executive Vice President and General Counsel William Castner regarding making the school a “sanctuary campus,” but his staff reportedly “delayed” and then cancelled it.
In a statement posted to Instagram, the PPC accused Rutgers of canceling the meeting (and “blocking” entrance to the building) out of “retaliation.”
“For 7 months the People Power Coalition has been fighting for a sanctuary campus,” the statement reads. “Going to various meetings with administrators and decision makers. They did this in order to protect students, community members, families in New Brunswick.”
Yumiguano said “I want to live in a city where I’m not afraid of waking up to the horrible call that my parents have been arrested for the crime of going to work. Am I supposed to feel protected by a university that refuses to say anything about the students who have already been kidnapped?”
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Tell me that they were raised on a steady diet of participation ribbons without telling me about said diet.
If I were the general counsel, I would agree to meet with the students at the “going rate” for an attorney at that level, pre-paid.
My brother told me of an incident at his firm where an applicant had seriously embellished their resume on an application, and was granted an interview. When it became clear that this person had misrepresented themselves, each of the partners who had spent time with this person billed that person for their time. The real upside was that down the road, they had far fewer applications to deal with. Put a price on the demands that students make, and I suspect the number of unsolicited demands will decrease.
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