The University of Alaska Fairbanks is hosting a workshop that aims to train students on how to actively engage federal immigration enforcement officers.
The Feb. 24 talk will be given by Heba El-Hendi, who works as the Catholic Social Services’ senior director of Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services in Alaska. Joining her will be Cindy Woods, senior staff attorney for immigrants’ rights at ACLU of Alaska.
According to a notice for the workshop, the duo will “discuss the legal framework of immigration, individual rights when interacting with federal officials, and ways to safely intervene as “bystanders and legal observers.”
Scheduled to take place in the Gruening Building on UAF’s campus, the workshop is part of an ongoing strategy in Alaska to equip activists with tools to “respond in real-world situations.”
In recent months, the ACLU has given similar trainings to left wing activist and student groups across the nation with the goal of providing so-called “accountability” to federal immigration enforcement agents who are working to apprehend and deport illegal aliens throughout the country.
During these trainings, activists are typically encouraged to video federal agents and actively instruct detainees on ways to avoid answering questions during their arrests. Activists are also told to provide “emotional support or offer verbal encouragement” to detainees during ICE operations.
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While the workshops discourage illegal activity such as physically interfering with ICE operations, activists are advised to alert local advocates and establish real-time hotlines about the exact locations of ICE operations.
Nationwide, hundreds of activists have been arrested in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Omaha, and others locations for allegedly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, or interfering with federal officers. This includes threatening agents who are carrying out their duties, damaging federal vehicles, locking arms to form human barriers, alerting enforcement targets before ICE agents make arrests, interrupting religious services with protests, blocking streets and directly confronting officers.
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does anybody go to uaf to learn anything in classes, or just to become agitators. maybe the “class” could include tossing bricks, or grabbing flash bangs to volley back at ice instead of blowing up in your hand as one mentally challenged young lady did in mpls.
how about staying in class and let law enforcement do their job.
a strange idea but it works.
I was born and raised in a Republican home and continue to value conservative principles. I’ve lived in Alaska almost 20 years. But can we just be honest that conservative media, which got its boost in America from the tabloid news moguls of the Murdoch family, has exploded into the revolving cycle of misinformation we have now. This article is feeding that beast. Media on the left is not great either. But the training above is aimed at being non-violent and well within their first amendment rights. No one is saying do not arrest immigrants with violent offenses. Immigration has been a contentious issue in America for decades without easy solutions aka vetting at the border. It didn’t start with Biden. Reagan welcomed immigrants. As editor in chief you need to dig into the data – readily available – and beyond the headlines and clickbait. This issue is fed by a giant lie that the 2020 election was stolen. We cant trust states to run elections. The data has always shown that non-citizens don’t vote and when they do they are caught. You need to prove citizenship when you register. The push to apprehend and detain immigrants in huge numbers is driven by the administration’s need to hold onto power. And all American citizens, not just liberals, will end up paying a huge price for this deception when the shoe is on the other foot. John
Without secure elections we are finished as a Democracy. We are at war with interests trying to collapse this Country. If this great debating Country of ours doesn’t pull their heads out and realize where we are really at and what is really happening, we are finished as the Nation that was founded. I dare say that for those that are trying to make that happen: Be careful what you wish for!
Telling us that the 2020 election was stolen isa lie proves that you are a liberal very likely of democrat affiliation who offers an assessment about as trustworthy as Dr Faucis COVID information!!
Call law enforcement, DOJ and Immigration enforcement to help them get a heads up of what is an enterprise to create disharmony on campuses in Alaska. Makes me wonder how Catholic Social Services got involved with the thinking that our university students need to learn to be agitators for destruction and mayhem! Is this in new curriculum instead of what’s necessary for a college degree? Who is paying them for this?
Catholic social services has been a long Tim esponsor for imm8grants, legal and otherwise !! They have sponsored many thousands of immigrants to major cities throughout the the US
As a late 1990s UAF graduate, I find it ironic that they teach students how to resist law enforcement… FYI- The Gruening Building was designed to resemble the FBI office building in Washington, D.C. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, planners believed university and other “establishment” buildings to be targets of civil unrest and built Gruening to withstand attack. It has no ledges or fixtures from which the building can be scaled from the outside.
Oh how the times have changed 😉
Can we get more stupid? They are inviting trouble. No matter what intentions they have, those in the class will interpret what is said to suit their personal agendas. Catholic social services should not be involved.
The Catholic Social Service Immigration Director has a background of activist work in Algeria, Libya and the Un before she came here. The other person is an attorney from ACLU and more than likely drumming up business to make money and income for Alaska office and the rest of the USA that caters to the violence following these endeavors and workshops. They both know that making a scene and creating hardship for law enforcement will have consequences but they aren’t on the receiving end of the consequences, just the students who will follow the lead workshop agenda and become martyrs to causes they didn’t know they had. It worked at Harvard and other schools, why not UAF, UAA, UAS? So, for the students who will be arrested and perhaps resist arrest one has to ask if they are ready for a felony charge and a direct change in their life and growth experience in order to follow the retards from the workshop teaching groups? Federal law is not going to change for those who get in the martyrs for causes. Illegal is just that and Alaska has perhaps a large number of those plus students from other countries who will have their visas withdrawn if they participate and become actively involved. There are always a few mentally charged students who pick up on that energy and do more harm without a clue of what is down the road. Catholic Social Services needs to relook their mission and programs and those who support them with money and people volunteers should examine these possible outcomes. With USAIDE gone, there will be no more and with housing and food and meds for the illegals, the horizon for them in the USA is gone. Mayhem will get them arrested ad deported. This Director should be replaced and programs there need reorganization and abolishment. Illegals need to take responsibility and self-deport.
So these stupid kids-people want to stop ICE from arresting, illegal aliens that rape, murder and steal.
Where’s the teaching of common sense to these kids?
UAF has a Liberal Arts program that has hired many foreign professor with strong ties to the middle east and who have spent study and travel and work in the middle east. They are definitely out of the norm and will pursue the program work and expansion of these issues in their program calling it necessary in their program teaching. The university has taken on these questionable people in the last few years to those positions. We will have another Harvard problem to contend with for sure. But tjhe federal funds issue is a good way to check on the problem they will be sheltering in those programs and the people that make it the way it is.
Demonstrably untrue, racist, and paranoid. Apropos of nothing, we really need to better fund mental health care in Alaska.
Trash.
And Dunleavy is okay with this little workshop?
Dunleavy funds it with our tax dollars! Every time I look at how we are destroying this state Dunleavy is standing tall in the middle of it! Or worse yet simply stands by watching it happen! “NOT MY JURISDICTION “! Management for decline inaction! Pumpkin head new to be returned to the pumpkin patch immediately!
These people have nothing positive or constructive to contribute to our state (or country). Their brains appear to be hardwired for evil intent. Most importantly, the University of Alaska should be focusing on academic studies, — NOT political activism.
classes to stop officers from doing what we the people voted for? No funding, if you are a student, get kicked out of school if you attend such a class. no money returned.
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This is the best news to come out of the University in some time. ICE, stay away!