GW Stands on the Right Side of History, Refuses to Cave to Anti-ICE Radicalism

The Right Angle Editorial Board

The GWU Law School. Photo credit: Talan Maskivish.

After a recent career fair at GW Law School, GW students were enraged that representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not disinvited, even though they ultimately did not attend. Students created a petition with over 1200 signatures calling on GWU Law and Georgetown Law to “remove [ICE] from all current components and future renditions of [the Public Sector Recruiting Program].”

In a widely circulated petition, students called ICE a “fascist organization, tasked with carrying out ethnic cleansing, family separation, and extreme brutality and violence,” failing to understand the definition of fascism while standing against the safety and security of America.

Demonizing law enforcement officials and comparing them to the Nazi Gestapo, the GDR Stasi, and Confederate slave patrols is, of course, what has directly led to the 8,000% increase in death threats and over 1,300% increase in assaults against them while they risk their lives every day to remove criminals, murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and terrorists from American communities.

Additionally, comparing lawful immigration enforcement to ethnic cleansing is an abhorrent dismissal of the suffering of all those who have and are facing actual genocide and persecution.

Simultaneously, other students have called out the university for not joining lawsuits against the government over funding cuts and patriotic policies – despite the school making the right choice to protect itself while maintaining a logical and coherent stance on these issues.

Despite the echo chamber of  extremism on the left, the majority of Americans support ICE enforcing our nation’s federal immigration laws and see Democrats as actively encouraging resistance to ICE officers simply trying to do their jobs and keep Americans safe.

The university’s refusal to endorse anti-ICE and violent rhetoric is reflective of the strong and independent choices of the GW administration in the face of radical demands.

The Right Angle reached out to the Washington Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but did not hear back.