Republican Student Group in ACU wants to report peers on ice

Republicans of the University College, Student Group of the State University of Arizona, is confronted with criticism of an event that encourages students to report peers.
Arizona Prosecutor General Chris Mace and other propaganda groups condemned the event and sought to promote the safety of all students.
College Republicans, known for their “America first” ideology, have previously faced feedback for their association with the White Rule Nick Nick Nick Fuenttes.

Conservative Student Group of connections with the rule of white Promotes events at the campus of the State University of Arizona, which encourages classmates to inform their peers with immigration and customs execution of the United States.

Group, College -Republicans United, noted on social networks that the event was scheduled for January 31. Message from the student group on x Read: “We will submit to the campus to ask for classmates to report our criminal classmates at the ICE for deportation.” The post continued to share the form of a hint created by the US immigration and customs execution, the Federal Agency responsible for the fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s promise on a massive increase in immigration efforts.

College of Republicans United Officially recognized student group On the campus of ACS. The Secretary of the University and other ACS officials was not available for comments.

The post met with rapid criticism by several propaganda groups and the Attorney General Arizona Chris Maize.

Property In social networks said Her office will stand for students with delayed actions for the status of childhood arrival, who are often known as “dreamers” or DACA recipients. The program, created in 2012, gave the protection of undocumented immigrants who moved to the United States as young children. Arizona has approximately 20,000 active DACA recipients, most older than 30 years of age who are allowed to live, work and attend school in the US

“This is the difficult behavior of this extreme right group in the ACS. Every student should be able to feel safe in the campus,” Mace said on X. He will never stop fighting to protect you. “

ALIento in ACS, an immigrant propaganda group based on the ACS campus, Posted an open letter Calling university officials to save students.

“Since the beginning of 2025, our community has entered uncertain times, and many of our students in the campus and their families are deeply concerned about targeting harmful immigration rhetoric and proposed policies and their impact on our educational experience,” the group said in a letter .

“In joining other student organizations on the campus, we urge student organizations and leadership of the ACS to resist any intimidation by other organizations and aim at campus immigration and customs performance that harm our students.”

The letter calls for the ACU to prevent the entry of ICE officials in a campus without a warrant, to ensure that student clubs do not violate school policy and protect students from targeting and harassment regardless of immigration status. The group stated that a peaceful rally will be held on Friday in response to the College Republicans.

Emily Sotelo, a student of ACS and Alyento’s co -chairman in the ACU, said that the event is heartburn and disappointed. She said she was trying to focus on her school work when classmates “call the people you love the criminals themselves.”

Sotello said that her organization worked to provide a place for students from mixed status families, with families, including people with different immigration status. This included gardening and other crafts, trying to strengthen the immigrant community communications and offer support to Trump’s return to the post.

“They will never be alone as long as we stay together,” Sotel said.

The student of the Student Student University has published a statement on Thursday, stating that they recognize “the emotional and mental fee, which it has taken on students who now feel undesirable or even threaten in their own learning environment.”

The statement continued to urge the ACS management to solve students’ safety problems and campus climate.

What is the Union College of Republicans?

The UNONEDED College has several sections across the country and insists on the first -time ideology. The group opposes immigration and multiculturalism.

Isaiah Alvarado, President of the ACS Head of the Republicans of the College, noted Trump’s early action on immigration and his unprecedented attempt to cease citizenship from birth, which was temporarily blocked federal judge. But Alvarado said that this is not enough.

“America is America,” he said. “We do not want America to be India, China, Mexico. We don’t want it to be Russia. We don’t want it to be Germany.”

Alvarado continued to say that the purpose of the group is to prevent other cultures and ethnomes of great presence in the US

The ACS head faced the reaction in the past. Local republican policies Distances from the group after she planned an event of 2023 to accommodate Nick FuentesWhite supremist -commentator.

The Association of Legal Law at the ACS at the ACS also undertook to protect the dreamer community in the ACS, noting the Code of Student Conduct in Arizona. One of the politics prohibits “discriminatory, including harassment and revenge.”

“Dreamers – students who have benefited from a program of delayed actions for children who come as a child – and all immigrants are integral members of our academic community,” the message reads. “They significantly contribute to the diversity and perfection of our institution and have all the right to study without intimidation or harassment.”

The group also pointed to the ACS governing charter, which says that the university is “measured not by who it excludes, but by those whom it includes and how they succeed.”

Helen Rummel covers higher education for the Republic of Arizona. Get to it at the address [email protected]. Follow her on X, previously Twitter: @heleenrummel.

(This story has been updated to add new information.)