ALARM!! ICE was at UCBERKELEY !!

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At 4:30pm on Wednesday, April 29, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agent and another federal agent entered the Clark Kerr Campus Dining
Commons. They spoke with a manager, who upon their request summoned a food
service worker and AFSCME 3299 member to his office and left him alone
with the agents. The agents arrested the worker and now have him under ICE
custody at Santa Rita Jail to undergo legal proceedings. No decision of
deportation has been made.

THIS IS CAUSE FOR ALARM! We must make clear that it is not acceptable for
ICE to kidnap anyone from our campus. ICE wants to send a message to every
immigrant student and worker that they are not welcome at UC-Berkeley or
in America. We must make clear to them it is they who are not welcome--on
our campus or in our city. By making the fight here, we can serve as an
example of how to fight and win against these racist kidnappers on any
college campus in the country. To establish UC-Berkeley as a public
university and an institution of enlightenment and intellectual honesty,
we must defend the right of every student and worker to live, learn, and
work without fear of being kidnapped by federal agents.

The ICE agent would not have been able to locate the Clark Kerr worker
without the help of someone at the University. This individual (or
individuals) responsible for this arrest must be fired. An independent
investigation must be conducted to determine who assisted the racist
kidnappers in this outrage.

We can win the Clark Kerr worker's release and make UCB a sanctuary campus
if we take a stand now. At UCSB on May 24, 2007, a Korean student was
arrested and threatened with deportation. After UCSB negotiated with ICE,
the government released the student four weeks later and she was able to
complete her degree.

Chancellor Birgeneau must join students in demanding the release of the
Clark Kerr worker. Just as the City of Berkeley has a sanctuary policy
that forbids its police and employees from assisting ICE, UC-Berkeley must
make clear, both in words and deeds, that it will not assist ICE in
deporting its own students or workers in any way.

This must never happen here again. As students and workers, we have the
power to shape the character of our education. It is the youth of America
today who share the desire to live in an America free of racist prejudice
and inequality, to live in an America of freedom and opportunity. We must
take a stand! We can win!

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