The United States Customs and Border Protection participated at the University’s General Interest and Business Career Fair on Wednesday and was met with a peaceful student demonstration from University students.
A group of students passed out flyers and made signs in front of the coliseum Wednesday.
Both CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been a cause of national concern over their enforcement tactics. The fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in January was committed by border patrol agents.
The CBP has also attended career fairs at the University of Georgia, the University of Maine,Oklahoma State University and other Universities around the country. The University of Georgia’s student-run newspaper, The Red and Black, reported that the Department of Homeland Security was increasing university recruitment by offering incentive packages like student loan repayment.
The University of Maine’s student newspaper, The Maine Campus, reported that their university’s career center had removed the CBP following student backlash.
Sophia Kyemba, president of the Leftist Collective executive board, said she attended the protest and was handing out flyers to students because she wanted to “make sure that people aren’t working for this organization.”
Flyers handed out by protesters included a list of demands and a QR code for a petition to make the University a sanctuary campus. The Leftist Collective had previously demanded that UA become a sanctuary campus at the January rally against ICE.
Some students who received the flyers responded to Kyemba and Emwanta and told them they wouldn’t work with ICE.
After CW reporters identified themselves as journalists, they wereas prohibited from walking past the lobby of the career fair at Coleman Coliseum to independently verify CBP’s presence at the career fair after . Schernavia M. Hall, the executive director of the Career Center, said no University employees at the event could verify that the CBP was present at the event. However, Alex House, associate director of communications for the University said in a statement to The Crimson White that “we’re told that [DHS] did register and participate.”
House added that “media aren’t typically allowed into the event without prior coordination” with the office of Strategic Communications.
“The Career the Career Fair is open to employers offering a variety of career-related or professionally oriented jobs and internships and students who may be interested in those jobs,” House said.
Omorose Emwanta, a junior majoring in neuroscience and philosophy and a member of the Leftist Collective executive board, said that the border patrol being present at the event goes “directly against our plans for UA as a sanctuary campus.”
“They [CBP] work in tandem with ICE. ICE has committed so many atrocities since their budget has been increased during Trump’s administration,” Emwanta said, pointing to an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last month. “Now it’s pretty much they’re terrorizing citizens. They’re instilling fear in Americans and just people in general in this country, and that is unacceptable to us. It’s unacceptable to many people on this campus.”
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