{"id":17374,"date":"2018-07-19T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17374"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:14:00","slug":"leftist-faculty-students-reflexively-demand-schools-cut-ties-to-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/07\/19\/leftist-faculty-students-reflexively-demand-schools-cut-ties-to-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Faculty, Students Reflexively Demand schools Cut Ties to ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, a gang of outraged Microsoft employees penned a letter<\/a> to CEO Satya Nadella demanding the tech giant to end its deal to provide cloud services to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – or to any clients with ties to ICE. The professional radical class \u2013 academia \u2013 circulated their own letter<\/a> backing Microsoft\u2019s rogue employees and now are calling for boycotts of their own.<\/p>\n

Left-wing faculty, alumni and students now are calling<\/a> for the Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels to end a partnership with ICE that the school has had since 2009. The formal agreement with the School of Education\u2019s Division of Public Safety Leadership, according to the website<\/a>, has a stated purpose of improving ICE\u2019s training and educational programs and working to \u201csupport the ICE mission, strategic goals\u201d and \u201ccontribute to measurable outcomes and results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardly controversial. But the value is not relevant to the activists, who have an ultimate goal of ending ICE and immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

The petition slanderously asserts that ICE is \u201cresponsible\u201d for managing detention centers that \u201chave been described by scholars of the Holocaust as meeting the conditions considered definitive of concentration camps.\u201d Therefore, \u201cwe do not see how in good conscience Johns Hopkins University can collaborate with this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boycott fever is not confined to Johns Hopkins as was evident during protests at Boston\u2019s Northeastern University. Tired chants and anti-ICE signs were plentiful as students and faculty marched across campus demanding the university cancel any research contracts with the agency.<\/p>\n

According to federal spending data, the university has received<\/a> $2.7 million from ICE over the past two years and the potential of over $7.7 million over an almost five-year period.<\/p>\n

The funds from ICE were awarded to Glenn Pierce, director of Northeastern’s Institute of Security and Public Policy, to support his work analyzing \u201cexports of technologies that have civilian uses\u201d and how to prevent acquisition by terrorists.<\/p>\n

The leftists may not mind shutting down academic research, but Northeastern spokeswoman Renata Nyul does.<\/p>\n

\u201cEfforts to restrict which federal agencies a faculty member can approach for research funding are antithetical to academic freedom,\u201d she stated<\/a>, according to WBUR radio.<\/p>\n

Not only do these knee-jerk boycotts stifle academic freedom, they are initiated with no consideration for the consequences \u2013 such as ending research into combating terrorism.