Border Patrol gives in to 600 protestors

"’We regret to inform the community that out of concern for the safety of CBP Recruitment Officers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection will no longer be participating in the UCI Fall Career Fair,’ U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ralph DeSio told FoxNews.com, instead referring students to the agency's recruitment website.”

The decision “followed a Change.org petition drive that some 600 people backed demanding the agency be banned from the Oct. 22 job fair at UC Irvine's Student Center. The petition claimed ‘having Border Patrol agents on campus is a blatant disregard to undocumented students' safety and well—being’ and is insulting to ‘mixed--status families.’"

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"’Students didn't want Border Patrol there because it is an immoral, human rights-violating institution,’ wrote a commenter identified as ‪Levi Vonk‪. ‘This is about denouncing an organization that has ruined literally millions of people's lives through detention and deportation, and has deported unknown thousands to their deaths in their home countries. This is a civil rights movement for everyone, regardless of citizenship. This is bravery.’"

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/10/26/safety-concerns-make-border-patrol-pull-out-of-job-fair-protests.html


UC-Irvine has 32,000 students.