AAUP-Backed Toolkit Urges Students to ‘Create a Crisis’ on Campus Over ICE Ties

The American Association of University Professors is sponsoring a campaign called “Schools Drop ICE,” which aims to force “colleges to drop their contracts with ICE’s key corporate enablers.”

For the campaign, the AAUP, along with Young Democratic Socialists of America, Sunrise Movement, and the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University, produced a toolkit instructing students to “create a crisis for university admin through an escalating campaign.”

“The fastest way to shrink ICE’s capacity is to cut off its private sector support. This Administration’s deportation machine depends on corporations for places to sleep, cars to drive, technology to track, planes to fly, and parking lots to stage. Colleges have real leverage over the companies providing these services,” the Schools Drop ICE website states. 

“When students and workers join together in action, we can force our schools to stop funding and normalizing ICE collaborators and take down the whole regime,” it states. 

The five target companies are Enterprise, Flock, ICE Air Carriers, Hilton, and Target.