An ICE enforcement action targeting one man in Brunswick on Tuesday prompted the Bowdoin security office to warn students about the law enforcement action.
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“We have been made aware that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are conducting an operation near the train station, northwest of campus. We have no information that ICE intends to come to Bowdoin’s campus,” said Vice President of Safety and Security Bill Harwood in an email obtained by WCME.
According to Bowdoin’s student paper, The Bowdoin Orient, Harwood sent out his email at 2:49 p.m. on Tuesday, hours after the operation had already concluded.
Harwood reportedly sent out a follow-up at 5:52 p.m., informing students that the operation targeted a single person in the area of Union Street.
Brunswick Police Chief Scott Stewart told the student paper that ICE informed them of the operation at around 8:00 a.m., and that it would be targeting a particular address.
Stewart said no Brunswick personnel were involved in the arrest and that he was unaware of the identity of the man arrested.
He told the paper that, around the time of the arrest, locals “confronted” ICE agents while they were parked on Union Street.
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Just another reason to despise this overpriced communist indoctrination camp
ICE operations are LEGAL. Any institution unwilling to cooperate with the law should NOT be receiving federal tax funding. My tax dollars are as good as those of anyone trying to prevent ICE from doing its job.
Does this mean Bowdoin doesn’t make sure students they admit are in this country legally?
What happened to “no one is above the law?”