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.