Democrats Bring the H8: Students Shut Down Northwestern Class to Protest ICE Representative’s Visit
21st May 2017
Student protesters shut down a sociology class at Northwestern University on Tuesday, after a professor invited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) public relations officer to be a guest speaker.
The protesters, chanting and waving banners, argued that the officer’s presence on campus represented a threat to undocumented students. But the professor — who canceled the class during the protest because she was concerned for the speaker’s safety — said she had been hoping to start a dialogue.
“The goal was to bring in somebody who was familiar with how that agency is structured,” Beth Redbird, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, told TIME.
They aren’t interested in knowing, they’re interested in winning — don’t confuse them with facts, just bow your head and obey.