Posted on 05/19/2017 10:18:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Protests that shut down a planned speech from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) public relations officer at Northwestern University this week were just the latest in a “troubling trend” of activists trampling on First Amendment rights, a leader of the school's College Republicans told Fox News on Friday.
“The protesters were making an unsafe environment for the students, for the professor, for the guest,” Sammy Cuautle, the public relations secretary of the Northwestern College Republicans, said on “Fox & Friends.” He added, “This is a very troubling trend around the whole country where universities are becoming less safe for freedom of speech and less safe for expression and different ideas which is really, really disappointing.”
“The goal was to bring in somebody who was familiar with how [ICE] is structured,” Beth Redbird, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, told TIME. But those plans were nixed when the protesters started chanting and waving banners as they claimed the officer’s presence on campus illustrated a threat to illegal immigrants.
The professor canceled the class during the protest amid safety concerns.
“Essentially what happened was that, a lot of, several students on campus got together and they were upset that the ICE agent was coming,” David Donnelly, the president of the Northwestern College Republicans, told Fox & Friends. “They felt that it threatened undocumented immigrants who were going to Northwestern or on Northwestern’s campus. In reality, what it really was, it was just a PR person for ICE. And what it was supposed to be was a two-day, sort of seminar, that was going on in the sociology class that would give the students two really great perspectives of basically what’s going on in the immigration reform debate.”
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Free speech for me but not thee.
There will have to be several deaths before this kind of nonsense will stop.
Better now than later.
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