Posted on 04/30/2019 10:51:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Border Patrol was disinvited from a job fair at a local college in San Jose, California, after a group of activists protested its planned presence and planned a rally at the fair.
San Jose City College's partner in putting on the job fair, Work2Future, asked the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which encompasses the Border Patrol, not to attend at the request of the school administration, a spokesman for the college, Ryan Brown, told NBC News on Tuesday.
For many at the diverse college, "the presence of U.S. Customs and Border Protection representatives on campus - regardless of their intentions or reasons for being there - can cause undue distress and concern," Elizabeth Pratt, the college's acting president, said in an all-campus message Monday.
"I am confident that we made the right choice by not including them in the job fair," Pratt added.
An activist group, Dump Trump San Jose, had been encouraging followers for more than a week to call the office of the San Jose City College president to demand that the Border Patrol be banned from the job fair and future college events.
The group posted a suggested script for callers that read in part: "The U.S. Border Patrol is a fundamentally racist and anti-immigrant institution. ... Immigrants make up almost 40 percent of our population and the presence of Border Patrol agents on SJ City College’s campus jeopardizes the safety of both its student body and the community at large."
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Show up, anyway, bring handcuffs!
If they take a single federal dollar, pull all funding.
They should show up with a couple bus’s to load up.
I saw one of these guys in my hometown on the north shore of Long Island at the saint Patrick’s Day Parade
I will never forget it. I will never attend the event again. And I moved out of New York
“If they take a single federal dollar, pull all funding.”
Exactly.
Dump Trump San Jose? First I’ve heard of this group and I live in San Jose. I agree with other poster....show up anyway. Better yet, maybe BP should make a surprise visit to all the local Home Depots. There, they can reign in several illegals.
Exactly.
But let's drive home the point - and deny fed fuds to the students at that school as well unless they have prior military service.
Politics is a team sport, don't want to support honorable employment with the government, don't ask for my money.
More tolerance, compassion and diversity from the fascist left.
I guarantee that without Federal Pell Grants that College would close in a week.
Home of the 2016 Convention Center herded ambush of conservatives. Zero surprise.
Several? You are being too restrained.
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