Social media lit up last weekend with claims that ICE was headed to California State Polytechnic University Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). The visit, however, wasn’t to conduct a raid, but a scheduled appearance at a career fair on Sept. 18.
By this past Monday, that career fair was postponed after a public campaign of phone calls and emails, led by students, their families and friends, and community networks, urged the university to reconsider allowing the agency to participate.
We spoke with students and staff at Cal Poly who clarified that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, not ICE, was the only law enforcement group connected to the Department of Homeland Security that was registered to appear at the fair.