PROTEST – NEW YORK CITY – TUESDAY, FEB. 25

DHS/ICE, Border Patrol:
OUT OF CUNY NOW!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 3:30 P.M.

Outside John Jay College (New Building), 59th Street between 10th & 11th Aves.

Beginning this Tuesday, February 25, agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – which the mass deportation machine of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are part of – will be recruiting at a job fair at the City University of New York’s John Jay College. They’re trying to recruit shock troops for the anti-immigrant, racist onslaught of raids and deportations – right here at CUNY! The CUNY Internationalist Clubs call on all defenders of immigrant rights and opponents of police-state terror to join us this Tuesday in front of John Jay, in a rally of protest and exposure demanding DHS/ICE, BORDER PATROL: OUT OF CUNY NOW! We say: Stop the raids and deportations! ICE out of New York!

Together with the New York State Division of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations New York, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the John Jay job fair, scheduled for February 25-27, features a raft of military recruiters and repressive agencies. These range from the NYPD and the Corrections departments of New York and New Jersey to the U.S. Marine Corps, plus state patrols, local police and sheriff’s departments, from California to Vermont, Texas to North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia – home of the massive “Cop City” police repression training center.

The John Jay job fair even includes recruiters for the Sheriff’s Office of Loudoun County, infamous as the epicenter of ultra-racist “massive resistance” to school desegregation in the 1950s – and now for its crusades against Black History teaching and against the rights of gay, lesbian and trans students.

Building on its predecessors’ record of ramping up the deportation machine, the new U.S. administration vows mass deportations, seeks to sow fear among immigrant communities, and tries to silence those opposing this racist onslaught. Here at CUNY, the largest urban public university in the United States, a huge number of us come from immigrant families, and all of us have immigrant classmates, coworkers and friends. In NYC, we have a lot of potential power: almost half the city’s workforce was born in another country. Will we be silent, or cower in fear, as the feds and their local accomplices try to recruit the shock troops for the anti-immigrant campaign? What do you say? Join us to say loud and clear: Hell no! Come out to the protest this Tuesday to demand: DHS/ICE, Border Patrol: Out of CUNY Now! ■

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