Rowdy actions from the students at Southern California and Arizona campuses have gone from advocacy to lunacy. Illegal immigration is a complex topic, and while it may be understandable to advocate against deportation and for more leniency toward undocumented immigrants — these students now want to block students from getting jobs working in border protection.
Why? Because undocumented students and their supporters feel unsafe with border control representatives showing up on campus, not to round up anyone, but just to come to a job fair on campus.
The College Fix has detailed accounts of such student protests.
Their aim isn’t so much trying to debate their points with reason and facts, but just to show anger and demand a “safe space” from differing views which may be harmful and hurtful.
At UC-Santa Barbara earlier in the year, students reacted to border patrol recruiters chanting “fuck your borders, fuck your walls.” They saw their behavior as justified because the agents being there was “triggering” for undocumented students, as one told the College Fix.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection was forced to back out of a career fair at UC Irvine in the fall. Students at San Diego State and the University of Arizona are taking similar actions against border protection agents. As college students are prone to do, both schools issued a list of “demands” against the agencies.
One of the demands from ‘SDSU Forward’ totally disregards the status of undocumented students and staff, rather placing the blame on government officials, reading:
The Marginalized Students at the University of Arizona wrote a 19-page letter of demands, which not only called for financial aid for DACA students, but spoke out against “Border Patrol,” writing:
Do these students really believe they’re winning over anyone to their side? That’s not what they want though — they just want to express their entitlement and feelings.
