Posted on 04/19/2025 12:36:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MIAMI — After Florida International University’s police department entered into an agreement with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus, some students say they are terrified.
“It’s scary and nerve-racking,” said an undergraduate at the university.
The student, who's not being identified because he lacks legal immigration status, told NBC News he came to the U.S. when he was 5 with his family after they were threatened by gangs in their native El Salvador.
FIU is one of a number of universities in Florida that have signed agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287(g) program, which trains local law enforcement officers to interrogate immigrants and detain them for potential deportation.
After nearly four years as an undergraduate at FIU, a student said he was looking over his shoulder.
The student said that when he and other undocumented students found out about the collaboration, “everyone was scared. People cried. Everyone feels it’s unfair.”
One FIU professor described the atmosphere as "reminiscent" of Latin American universities and what it was like in the Soviet Union.
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Well that settles it, if one student is scared, we have to dismantle all the law enforcement agencies and release all prisoners.
IF you are here illegally then YOU are trespassing. it’s illegal to be in these United States of America illegally so you SHOULD be worried...and leave this country.
Being a constant crime breaker should scare you but criminals really DON’T CARE
Has he or his family ever tried following the rules? Yes, it can take months, years even to get a Green Car or achieve legal immigrant status, but if you don’t try.....
😭😭😭😭. Leave now then.
Good.
Now get out.
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Thought they’d be more worried about being unarmed on campus.
“Go north, young man, and become Canada’s problem.” — Decal Greeley.
The president of El Salvador has been cracking down on the gangs there. So why is the family scared to return to their country? Obviously, they like it here, but they aren’t here legally.
I have a green car.
Florida college students scared, on edge over campus police’s cooperation with ICE
And......? What is your point?
They are committing a crime. They are stealing places in classes reserved for Americans or green card holders.
People that have come here legally and/or remain here legally don’t have to “look over their shoulders.”
Let them go home and culturally enrich their own country.
Exactly!
At all.
“The student, who’s not being identified because he lacks legal immigration status”
Then he should be scared, he doesn’t belong here. I hope he is terrified.
I’m fed up with illegal aliens and anyone who helps and defends them.
Tom Homan: I am the one who knocks.
So do I.
Well said.
Why live like that? Why not go through the process of becoming a legal citizen?
You don’t want to be one?
It’s too easy not to? Why hassle yourself?
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