Students protest GOP-led event encouraging peers to report classmates to ICE

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(31 Jan 2025)
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Tempe, Arizona – 31 January 2025
1. Man dressed in black leather jacket.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaiah Alvarado, College Republicans United:
"So far right now, the current Trump admin, as I mentioned, we're currently dissatisfied with what they're doing right now. We can't even break over a thousand deportations a day. Tom Hoffman (Homan) the border czar, JD Vance and numerous Republican pundits and spokespeople, they've all said we're prioritizing violent criminals. These are known people with a criminal record. We're not going after, you know, random people. Yeah. And that's not that's not in the cards. And I don't think that's ever going to be in the cards.”
3. Table on its side with signs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaiah Alvarado, College Republicans United:
“If if there's criminal violators on campus, the law must be enforced. Simple as that. There's no buts and ifs there. There's no you know, we we want to enforce the law, whatever it is that we have. That's not how a country functions without actually enforcing the law. We have lawlessness.”
5. Protests with signs
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaiah Alvarado, College Republicans United:
“As I mentioned in numerous interviews, I do not advocate vigilantism. We're not taking the law into our own hands. This is not like some Wild West cowboy scenario that we're doing here. We're not going to be lassoing up people. We're far from the days of the Arizona territory we are a property state. And like I've advocated so far, we are for laws and due process, and we're taking legal, perfectly peaceful means of how to do that.”
7. Protesters marching
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Reyna Montoya, founder and CEO of Aliento:
“There was very hateful messages from a student club of the College Republicans united at ASU that wanted to encourage their peers to call on ICE to report DACA recipients and dreamers. I'm a dreamer myself. I'm a DACA recipient, and a lot of students were afraid of just going to class. And places like universities shouldn't be a place where you're afraid to go to class. They only want to get their degree. And that's why we wanted to show with a lot of love, with compassion, to let them know that Dreamers, we're Americans, we're your classmates, and we just want to get our education.”
9. Protesters marching
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Reyna Montoya, founder and CEO of Aliento:
“And what it really does is it's instilling fear for them not to go to school. And I think that sometimes I don't know what their intentions are. I just pray that they see our students as humans and that we, spite of all the the hateful rhetoric, our students are going to persevere because our parents made so many sacrifices for us to get an education. And despite all those obstacles, we're going to pursue it.”
11. Protesters with signs
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Reyna Montoya, founder and CEO of Aliento:
“Our dreamers are not alone in that. Today we saw that love overcame all the fear. And there are people at ASU who care about our students to get an education."
13. Reyna Montoya with a megaphone
STORYLINE:
Several hundred students rallied Friday at Arizona State University in protest of a GOP-led event encouraging students to report “their criminal classmates to ICE for deportations.”

The protestors marched outside the Memorial Union where ASU's chapter of College Republicans United was holding its event. They raised signs saying, “Fear has no place in schools” and “Immigrants make America great" as chants broke out, including “Down, down with deportation. Up, up with education.”





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