To say the actions of this University are tone deaf is a gross understatement.
A week after a series of YAF tabling events centered around the slogan “Deport Every Illegal,” the University’s spring 2026 Career Fair hosted a recruitment booth for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Ironically, during UA’s self-proclaimed UA One Week, it seems our students cannot catch a break from this anti-immigration rhetoric.
Customs and Border Protection is a separate entity from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. However, these two law enforcement entities have increasingly cooperated during President Donald Trump’s second term in office. CBP has been used alongside ICE in immigration raids and deployments across the country, including in Minneapolis, where CBP agents fatally shot Alex Pretti.
The presence of this organization at a UA career fair of all places is distasteful and disrespectful. Career fairs are meant to connect students with new potential employers and serve as a resource to further their future endeavors. By hosting CBP, the University is not only encouraging students to work for it, but simultaneously discouraging those frightened of CBP to not even attend in the first place.
The argument for immigration is long past the point of civil political debate; allowing events like YAF immigration tabling and the presence of such an organization is a slap in the face to all those affected by the corruption exuded by the Department of Homeland Security and all its agencies.
As a first-generation Latina at UA, I can attest that the atmosphere on campus has changed drastically. There has been more anti-immigration sentiment in the new year alone than was ever seen in the fall semester, and with it comes heightened anxiety for all those targeted. The smallest peace of mind is granted when students realize YAF is just one organization among many and that not everyone truly feels this way.
This hopeful mentality is crushed when our university brings CBP to a school-sanctioned event — only furthering the divide between students of color and the rest of campus.
People may try to justify the presence of CBP as much as they want, claiming that it provides jobs to UA students. But that does not negate the fact that with the brutalities carried out by CBP, it should not be welcome here, especially not at the expense of the comfort and peace of mind of our students.
People are always going to have contrasting opinions on topics as complex as the state of immigration in the United States. However, hosting this agency is not only inappropriate, but makes students feel as though the University is taking a side — one that doesn’t support all of its students equally and also does a portion of them a great disservice.
UA is home to students of all races, ethnicities and backgrounds; in return it should extend basic respect and consideration to its students in light of current events, even those in the minority.
Students should be able to walk to class without having to worry about what tabling event they’re going to pass on the way to class or what booth is present at a career fair at the school they fought so hard to attend. They should also be able to find relief and know that their institution has their back, politics aside. Unfortunately, it’s clear that the University doesn’t.
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