It is plain knowledge that Georgetown Law is great if you’d like to transition your legal career toward working for the government. That said, working for ICE probably isn’t as good a line on your resume as you’d like it to be. Killing people is one thing — ICE-related deaths have been on the rise and folks haven’t paid it much mind — but their lawlessness ramping up to the point that they’re just casually violating the civil rights of officers and arresting them isn’t going to look good once the nation overcomes this fever dream:
This is the exact sort of behavior you’d expect after JD Vance and The Pop-Tart Man go about telling the poorly trained slave catchers demanding freedom papers that they have absolute or federal immunity to fuck with whomever they please.
Despite JD Vance’s black eyeliner crocodile tears about how he’s the real victim because enabling Trump’s secret police made it hard for him to enjoy Disneyland with his kids, the social consequences of being associated with ICE continue. Namely, Georgetown Law students are petitioning for ICE and the DHS to be removed from the school’s career fair. The Hoya has coverage:
More than 1,100 students, graduates and student organizations have signed the petition calling on Georgetown Law and the George Washington University Law School, which is jointly hosting the event, to remove ICE and DHS from the Public Sector Recruiting Program (PSRP), a virtual career fair for students interested in working in the public sector. The petition also asks the universities not to invite ICE and DHS to any future career fairs or school events.
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“[W]e do not want ICE on our campus, whether virtually or in-person because it harms our students,” [Annie] Gillani told The Hoya. “It sends a message that it’s okay for Georgetown students to be working at agencies that are ripping families apart, killing people and destroying our immigrant communities.”
While this career fair is a virtual one, the further demand for ICE and DHS to keep away from future, potentially in-person recruitment events is a smart one. There wasn’t as much fear when “Kavanaugh stops” blessed ICE to racially profile anyone who didn’t look like they came from a long line of WASPs, but now that white soccer moms and police officers are proving to be just as vulnerable, the fiction that ICE only goes after deserving criminals or “are just doing their job to keep us safe” is progressively getting harder to maintain for a lot of people. Some people are late to the party, but they’re welcome nonetheless.
Georgetown law students stepping out as some of the first in the T14 isn’t surprising. They put their actions where there morals were when they called Skadden a bunch of cowards and decided to opt out of a recruitment event last year. The career fair is scheduled for the 23rd. Hopefully the only ICE in attendance will be chilling drinks rather than civil liberties.
Students Petition GU Law Center to Remove ICE From Career Fair [The Hoya]
Earlier: Georgetown Law Student Group Calls Skadden Cowards, Opts Out Of Recruitment Event
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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