Texas Conservative Student Group To Hold 'Catch An Illegal Immigrant' Game
Source: Think Progress
On Wednesday, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Young Conservatives will hold a mock immigration raid to target several students on campus who are purposefully wearing illegal immigrant t-shirts. The Facebook event is meant to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives and students who catch an undocumented immigrant will receive a $25 gift card.
The Facebook event was posted early Monday morning, but it has already drawn sharp opposition from people who have contacted the university presidents office to call for the expulsion of the lead organizer Lorenza Garcia. Garcia once worked as a campaign staffer for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. A university spokesperson said that the school will release a response on Wednesday afternoon.
The UT Young Conservatives is not the first group to hold such an event. In 2005, the Young Conservatives of the University of North Texas awarded candy bars to students who captured people posing as undocumented immigrants. In 2006, about 100 students protested the Catch the illegal immigrant game jointly organized by the Young Americans for Freedom at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan after the game was suggested by Morgan Wilkins, a former field representative for the College Republican National Committee. And in 2007, several hundred people protested student Republican groups at New York University and the University of Iowa when players searched on campus for students wearing an illegal immigrant insignia.
Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at UT-Austin said in a prepared statement that student members who carried out the plans would be willfully ignoring the honor code and contributing to the degradation of our campus culture. Vincent also said, such tactics are inflammatory and demeaning. And once again in trying to be provocative, the YCT is contributing to an environment of exclusion and disrespect
Some UT Austin students are undocumented, and under Dream Act legislation signed into law in 2001, these students are entitled to attend state universities.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/18/2960211/conservative-college-group-hold-catch-illegal-immigrant-game/
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)jmowreader
(50,546 posts)"Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" and "Price Determined By Race Bake Sale" are two of the more popular stupid fucking ideas College Republican groups do. They pull this shit all the time and NO ONE ever calls them out on it.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)They all put on the yellow Star of David, so the Nazis couldn't tell who the real Jews were.
So just print up a few thousand "illegal immigrant" shirts and distribute them far and wide.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)for anyone "caught" by these assholes.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Bankrupt them.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Geez, these idiots.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)I've said it before; Calling oneself a "Conservative Republican" is nothing more is a way to excuse the fact that they're an asshole.
louis-t
(23,284 posts)Must be genetic.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)of course, they don't exist ... so there will be no award ...
socialist cyclist
(18 posts)Hard to believe a university would allow something like this to occur. Even one in Texas.
gopiscrap
(23,733 posts)Gothmog
(145,046 posts)UT is fairly liberal which is why these idiots decided to pull this stunt in Austin. The YCT are both arrogant and stupid which is why they wanted to pull this stunt in Austin. This stunt did not go over well which is why it was canceled
Abukhatar
(90 posts)damned anchor babies whose forefathers likely came here without papers
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Nearly every student would be wearing illegal alien tags.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Aaron8418
(18 posts)Now here is a good example of " The Man " figure of an organization making a mountain out of a mole hill. The teachers are not trying to make a new KKK group or anything of that matter, they are trying to teach them something they obviously need to know, as to it's part of everyday life in this world especially in this country. Nobody got hurt, nobody was being discriminated against, they were participating in an activity with there fellow students. You also have to take into mind these are college students, not high school or middle school children. Any college student should have a mature mind set enough to know what is going on. I believe that teachers should definitely 100% be aware of what they are teaching and wanting to teach as to make it a " learning experience " Not a catastrophic one. I mean the teachers don't go to school to make their students reckless hoodlums. Lol.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Even if it WAS the teachers, what exactly is being taught here? And to whom?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)unionthug777
(740 posts)i should go down there and "catch" one of those little repukes, and see what they have to say.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)dembotoz
(16,796 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)how do they even tie their shoes every morning?
Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)heads.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)The lead organizer is Lorenza GARCIA ?!
Oblivious. Deluded. Self-Hating. Ignorant.
What if a bunch of cholos held a "Kick the Ass
of a Racist Republican Day"?
And, let's be honest, it's not intended to be
anything but offensive.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)Juanita Jean has a good picture of Abbott with this idiot http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/11/18/ins-badges-not-required/
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
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You seem out of place. You have wings,
yet you can't fly. You have huge feet,
but you're too fat to run away. You
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must be small since you talk like an
idiot. What do you do?
DODO: What am I? Why I'm Republican.
We don't do anything. We did once, I
think. But I forgot what that was about.
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)are waiting breathlessly for all us older folks to die off so there will be no more racism in the world . . .
What exactly does this do to your theory? It's OK. It's rhetorical.
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Bankrupt the creeps.