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Publicly Funded Teachers Unions Join Newark Anti-ICE Protests as the Left MOBILIZES Against Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Agenda (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 01, 2026 | Patriot Perspective

Posted on 06/01/2026 6:16:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

WATCH: Unions Join Newark Anti-ICE Protests as the Left MOBILIZES Against Trump’s Immigration Enforcement

VIDEOS AT LINK..............

Anti-ICE protests in Newark, New Jersey, are exposing a much larger problem than opposition to one detention facility. The demonstrations show how organized left-wing groups, labor activists and even teachers unions are joining forces to fight President Trump’s immigration agenda.

On the latest episode of The Patriot Perspective, the hosts discussed the protests outside the Newark ICE facility and the broader movement behind them.

The concern is not simply that activists are protesting. Americans have a right to protest. The concern is that these demonstrations appear to be part of a larger political machine designed to pressure law enforcement, defend illegal immigration and undermine the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

One of the most concerning developments is the involvement of teachers unions.

Teachers unions are supposed to represent educators and focus on schools, classrooms and students.

Instead, union activists increasingly appear at protests that have nothing to do with education. Their presence at anti-ICE demonstrations shows how far these organizations have moved away from their original purpose and how deeply they have become involved in partisan politics.

That should concern every parent in America.

Public schools across the country face serious problems. Students are struggling with reading and math. Discipline problems have increased in many classrooms. Parents are frustrated with ideological curriculum, failing schools and education bureaucracies that resist reform.

Yet some of the same unions that dominate public education are spending political energy attacking ICE and defending illegal immigrants from deportation.

Teachers unions are not ordinary activist groups. They have money, staff, political influence and the ability to mobilize members quickly.

When organizations with that level of power involve themselves in protests against law enforcement, the issue becomes far more serious. These unions are helping build pressure against the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law.

The episode also pointed to the broader left-wing strategy behind these movements. On the left, every issue becomes connected.

Anti-police activism, immigration activism, labor activism, anti-Israel activism and socialist politics are often treated as part of the same larger cause. That is why the same style of protest politics keeps appearing across different issues.

The question is simple: Why are teachers unions involved in protests against ICE?

The answer is political power. Teachers unions have become one of the strongest arms of the Democrat Party. They oppose school choice, fight charter schools, promote left-wing policies and protect a public education system that too often fails students.

Their involvement in anti-ICE protests is another example of how unions use education as a political platform.

President Trump’s immigration policy is based on a basic principle: the United States has the right and duty to enforce its own laws. The left’s attempt to demonize ICE is dangerous, especially when powerful institutions like teachers unions join the campaign.

Teachers should be focused on educating students. Unions should be focused on improving schools. Instead, many union leaders appear more interested in resisting Trump than fixing the education crisis facing American children.

The anti-ICE protests should serve as a warning sign about the left’s political machine and the institutions helping power it.


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1 posted on 06/01/2026 6:16:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“fixing the education crisis”

The last people that can fix education are: majority of teachers, all administrators, all school boards, any government. They are all 4 the problem.


2 posted on 06/01/2026 6:20:03 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Red Badger

The expected Summer war of 2026 is starting to materialize. One side out protesting. The other side praying (very unsuccessfully, I might add) for the leftists to disappear.


3 posted on 06/01/2026 6:21:18 AM PDT by CatOwner ( )
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To: Red Badger

Trump should write an EO which says that anyone who violates the law should LOSE ALL WELFARE BANEFITS forever. Welfare is a contract. People lose benefits all the time. If you break through rules you are out.

Follow the rules or lose benefits. Rioting will stop almost immediately. Rioters might hate Trump but they would not want to lose their money.


4 posted on 06/01/2026 6:26:52 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Red Badger

Any teacher out there protesting this should be fired and be nowhere near children


5 posted on 06/01/2026 6:28:38 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Red Badger

Fighting ICE is not a winning gambit for Democrats... Most American’s actually support ICE. Most American’s... Including immigrant American’s are against ‘illegal’ immigration and want illegal immigrants returned to their home countries.

The concept that American’s want illegal immigrants is not only wrong... It’s insane. Only a delusional Democrat would come up with a policy of supporting illegal immigration.


6 posted on 06/01/2026 6:29:12 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

One thing I wish ICE would do is vid inside the facility including meals being served to expose the lies dems keep telling about conditions


7 posted on 06/01/2026 6:38:50 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: butlerweave

Agreed.


8 posted on 06/01/2026 6:40:52 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Singermom

Exactly.


9 posted on 06/01/2026 6:41:10 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: RWGinger

They have offered tours of the facility but were turned down..........


10 posted on 06/01/2026 6:41:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

Nazi teacher unions. The scum of the earth.


11 posted on 06/01/2026 6:42:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal Alien Border Invaders are the broken windows of America. Influencers of violence and crime.)
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To: Red Badger

This. This has to be the reason so many Democrats hate Trump. He is actually trying to do something about immigration. Immigrants are almost always Democrat voters. Real Americans often will not vote Democrat any more. They have to have someone to keep them in power. I have decided the immigration issue is THE REASON for the hatred.


12 posted on 06/01/2026 6:45:29 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Red Badger

Get your kids out of these public school sewers.


13 posted on 06/01/2026 6:47:08 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: metmom

ping!................


14 posted on 06/01/2026 6:57:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

bingo!....................


15 posted on 06/01/2026 6:58:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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They can ‘demonstrate’ all they want! America will NEVER forgive them for what they did to this country with their BS immigration policies!


16 posted on 06/01/2026 7:13:07 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Red Badger

If we are stupid enough to allow public employees to have a union and stupid enough to help fund it, we deserve every bit of this.


17 posted on 06/01/2026 7:29:51 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Red Badger

Outlaw all public unions.


18 posted on 06/01/2026 8:11:43 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (How it started: Covfefe -> -> -> How it is going: COVFAFO)
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To: Red Badger

We want crowded cities!

We want environmental destruction!

We want wage competition and a race to the bottom!

We want ethnic war!

Did I get it all right?

Everything the Unionized Left USED to say back in the ‘60s against immigration and overpopulation is now their main platform.

Guess you have to have an Education “degree” to understand that.


19 posted on 06/01/2026 9:02:49 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Red Badger

Thank you.I did not know. Of course the dems would turn them down
Truth would get in the way of their lies about the facility


20 posted on 06/01/2026 9:24:33 AM PDT by RWGinger
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