College Offers Counseling Ahead of Border Patrol Job Fair

The vice president of student affairs at Cal State San Marcos is so concerned about the potential effects of an upcoming campus visit by Border Patrol agents she sent an email to warn them. The agents will be on campus for a career fair.

“In keeping with CSUSM’s commitment to provide advanced notice to the campus community, there are two dates on which U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and/or other law enforcement agencies will be on campus,” reads the email by Dr. Lorena Checa.

“If for any reason a student or member of our faculty or staff are stopped on campus by any official asking for information or documentation, immediately contact our University Police Department.”

Checa’s email reminds her students of the various resources available to them if the law enforcement presence makes them uncomfortable.

“For supportive, confidential counseling” Checa directed students toward the “Student Health and Counseling Services,” while she touted the “Cross-Cultural Center” and the “Latin@ Center” as good places “for supportive environments to discuss and engage with others.”

Checa also seemed to encourage students to protest the agents.

“CSUSM will provide the broadest possible latitude in exercising free speech and expression, even when controversial,” her email says. “Individuals exercising their right to free speech protest should follow CSUSM’s policies and regulations Free Expression at CSUSM.”

The email is not only notable for the incredible coddling of students, but also for the extent to which it betrays the administrator’s ignorance of how immigration law is enforced.

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“If for any reason a student or member of our faculty or staff are stopped on campus by any official asking for information or documentation, immediately contact our University Police Department at 760-750-4567 or 911 from any campus phone,” the email reads.

Aside from the inherent complications in trying to file a police complaint over the fact that a federal law enforcement agency is doing its job, there is absolutely no reason to expect Border Patrol agents would stop any students or staff members on campus.

As its name suggests, the job of the Border Patrol is — and this might come as a shocking surprise to Dr. Checa — to patrol the border. The agents who might theoretically come knocking at the Cal State San Marcos dorms looking for illegal aliens would be members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).