Preventing Deportations and Visa Revocations: ICE Breakers Campus Group Forms to Link Immigrant and Palestine Support
Editor’s Note: This information was provided to me about a blueprint for organization chapters forming on some campuses in the USA. The goal is to recognize the commonality of the struggle of those who are facing illegal ICE crackdowns and Palestinian support students who are facing an illegal effort to revoke their residency visa for participating in constitutionally protected free speech activity on college campuses. For now the groups are keeping it low key and doing the ground breaking work before publicly anouncing their goals and objectives. You can connect to a faculty support organizer of this effort through this Insta account. This editor urges our NJ readership, particularly students to consider connecting or duplicating similar efforts – efforts that guessing are likely already underway in NJ. FightBackBetter of course is here to amplify all student efforts to support Palestine advocacy and advance unity with similarly interested constituencies – so please connect with us with news information that we can report: Editor@FightBackBetter.com .
Preventing Deportations and Visa Revocations
Campus ICE Breakers, modeled on similar groups forming around the country, will be a private network of people determined to prevent deportation of undocumented college students, families and working people who have committed no crimes It will also, as the first college group formed, try to prevent visa revocations of international students who participated in Palestine Solidarity protests on campus..
The group, whose members will meet on ZOOM and in small private gatherings, will keep track of ICE raids on and off campus, try to identify people in our community working with ICE, and provide aid to people on and off campus targeted by raids, deportations and visa revocations.
Although individuals in the group will not be publicly identified, the group may produce pins and stickers with the letters IB written on them so that people resisting deportations can identify themselves and find other like minded people ready to stand up vulnerable groups. it will also work with other organizations, on and off campus, organizing public protests against deportations and suppression of justice activism
