Last week, a few dozen students, professors and community members with children in tow gathered in front of the Milton Eisenhower Library on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus as part of an “Anti-ICE Protest and Playdate,” to call attention to the university’s ongoing contract with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Kids sat on the sidewalk coloring, playing and shaking noisemakers–just being kids–beneath a banner that read “Families Belong Together,” as speakers laid out their resolute demands.
“We demand Johns Hopkins University drop all of its contracts with the abusive and racist Immigrations and Customs Enforcement administration,” the organizer of the event, Aimee Pohl, declared, her child at her hip.
The group then marched to JHU president Ronald Daniels’ office with a “Petition to End JHU Partnership with ICE” signed by nearly 2,000 people. There, Stephanie Saxton, a JHU grad student and member of Students Against Private Police, unfurled a scroll of signatories’ names as a few jumpy JHU security guards looked on.
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