University of Pennsylvania had planned to hold an event last night on immigration, “Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump”, and Tom Homan was one of the speakers on the panel. But protesters lost their collective mind because he was there and the University of Pennsylvania nixed the event:
Here’s more:
FOX NEWS – The University of Pennsylvania shut down an event Wednesday on immigrant detention and deportation after student protesters demonstrated against retired ICE Director Tom Homan’s appearance on the panel.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends: First” with anchors Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus, Homan said that he had received a warning before he even got on the train to Philadelphia that there was a petition from over 500 students and alumni to cancel the event. The petition also called for the university to ban all invitations to current or former ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials.
“Under Homan, ICE continued to be a violent organization responsible for terrorizing immigrant communities…inviting Homan as a guest speaker contradicts Penn’s claim of being a sanctuary campus,” the petition read.
Homan told Piro and Shimkus that the petition was ignorant and that “the ones who want to shout down a meaningful discussion — they will remain ignorant.”
The event, held at the campus’s Perry World House, was entitled “Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump” and Homan was joined onstage by the Director of Children and Family Services at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Andrew Lorenzen-Strait and partner at Decert LLP Sozi Tulante.
However, Homan said the protests began as soon as the event’s emcee approached the podium.
Campus security eventually decided to empty the event room, and the panelists were then escorted off the stage.
Homan said that while he did get to talk with a small group of students for around an hour after the protests, the situation was “unfortunate.”
These leftists are so intolerant of discussion and debate even on a college campus, where free speech is supposed to be protected. They’ve become fascists against thing they disagree with, so much so that they’ve turned the college campus into nothing but safe spaces with counseling for people ‘triggered’ by someone else’s free speech.
Tom Homan said the news reported that he had chuckled on stage while all this was going on. He said the reason he chuckled was because he saw a protester with a sign that said “ABOLISH ICE” but they spelled “abolish” wrong. He said maybe they should spend more time in the classroom instead of protesting because their parents are probably paying a lot for this education. LOL!