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DePaul University Launches New 'Racial Justice,' Anti-ICE Media Institute with Lori Lightfoot
NewsBusters ^ | 3/5/2026 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 03/05/2026 11:16:19 AM PST by JV3MRC

Attention DePaul University donors! Do you want to check out how your funding is being put to use? The institution just initiated an obnoxious, new anti-ICE journalism institute in partnership with radical ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot and another Chicago-based left-wing group financed by some of the most notorious leftists in American politics.

The supposedly Catholic DePaul — which sits comfortably on a roughly $1.15 billion endowment — announced that it was launching the cringely-named Institute for Journalism and Racial Justice (IJRJ) during a February 25 campus event, according to student newspaper The DePaulia.

The announcement came following a “community briefing for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountability platform led by” Lightfoot. Who held Lightfoot accountable? The Firearm Industry Trade Association panned Lightfoot's tenure as Mayor in 2023 as being tainted by some of “the worst criminal and gang violence in memory.” Chicagoans reported a 43 percent crime increase in 2022 above pre-pandemic levels under her administration. But apparently, DePaul sees the former Democrat mayor as its guiding “Lightfoot.”

“DePaul launches new journalism institute aligned with Lightfoot ICE initiative,” read the headline by DePaulia editor-in-chief Sofia Joseph and content managing editor Laura Vázquez David. Also telling was that the anti-ICE “community briefing” with Lightfoot was moderated by former ABC News Nightline correspondent Chris Bury, who has since become the senior journalist-in-residence at DePaul. Per The Depaulia, “In describing how racial justice comes into play at [her] ICE accountability project, Lightfoot” told Bury that “it is ‘fundamentally a part of where we are.’”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; antiamericanism; chicago; defunddepaul; depauluniversity; ice; illinois; lorilightfoot; sedition
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1 posted on 03/05/2026 11:16:19 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

ex-Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot Once made the claim that she had the biggest dick in Chicago.


2 posted on 03/05/2026 11:17:41 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: JV3MRC

“Racial justice” =

Anti white hate.


3 posted on 03/05/2026 11:24:56 AM PST by cgbg (The definition of outstanding propaganda is when almost everybody believes the same lies.)
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To: JV3MRC

That fits them since there is no such thing as “racial justice”. Justice is just like “perfect”, there are no modifiers for it.


4 posted on 03/05/2026 11:32:40 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: JV3MRC

Discarded food ends up in a garbage dump. Discarded Democrats end up in a cushy job somewhere elsewhere.
💰

Funny how that works.


5 posted on 03/05/2026 11:32:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: JV3MRC

DePaul University anti law wonder what they have to hide?.

Things are done for a reason.

Propaganda masks used for a reason.


6 posted on 03/05/2026 11:35:10 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: JV3MRC

Lightfoot. Friggin loons don’t die. They always just show up.


7 posted on 03/05/2026 11:38:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: OldHarbor

But in the contest, the Prixster proved that his was a foot wider.


8 posted on 03/05/2026 11:40:07 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: JV3MRC

Of course. What else would Lori Lightfoot do? She is completely unemployable other than in a job like this.


9 posted on 03/05/2026 11:51:35 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: JV3MRC

She got her own communist color revolution operation center paid for with money looted from the US Treasury.


10 posted on 03/05/2026 11:55:43 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
What else would Lori Lightfoot do? She is completely unemployable other than in a job like this.

When Halloween comes around, she can get a job scaring the children.

11 posted on 03/05/2026 11:59:46 AM PST by Kleon
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To: JV3MRC

Another good ol Catholic entity destroying Christianity one institution at a time.

Hey Pope. Tear down those walls aroung Vatican City and let those turds camp out at the piazza.


12 posted on 03/05/2026 12:08:12 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: cgbg

True.


13 posted on 03/05/2026 12:16:07 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: JV3MRC

Another fake Catholic school.likr Notre Dame


14 posted on 03/05/2026 12:39:03 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: JV3MRC

Lori Lightfoot keeps bobbing back to the swamp’s oily surface, like a piece of driftwood.


15 posted on 03/05/2026 1:04:12 PM PST by lee martell
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To: JV3MRC

Yawn. Just another looting scheme for unemployed, connected leftists.


16 posted on 03/05/2026 2:11:50 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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