Law students have stood brave in the fight to minimize ICE’s trampling on the Constitution. And it’s a hell of a fight — concentrating judicial and legislative authority in the hands of the executive branch is ripe ground for tyranny. But they fight on, by equipping their their communities with anti-ICE hotlines or trying to throw a wooden shoe in the hiring process. Penn Law has joined in on the effort with free trainings to inform a city being openly targeted by the Trump administration. The DP has coverage:
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School student groups hosted a training about rights in the face of immigration enforcement on Tuesday. The Feb. 17 Immigration Know Your Rights Training aimed to give attendees a plan of action should they encounter United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Philadelphia.
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After the event, organizers distributed Immigration Know Your Rights cards which outlined the constitutional rights of citizens and noncitizens, and contained information about what to do in the case of an interaction with an ICE agent.
As important as it is to have protocol in place for how things should go in an ICE encounter, the unfortunate reality is that a shamefully sizeable amount of the executive either don’t know enough about the Constitution for it to change how they do their jobs, or are openly ignoring it so they can say and do things that must seem really cool to a 6-year-old who still believes wrestling is real:
Know your rights, but also know they aren’t worth as much when the executive is openly defying court orders, illegally jailing by the thousands, and killing nurses for protecting women. Be careful out there. Rights training is a good start, but the real end is abolishing ICE.
Penn Carey Law Student Groups Host Immigration Know Your Rights Training [The DP]
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