‘Create a crisis’: Mainstream professor group partners with DSA to unleash anti-ICE chaos on campuses
Who's accountable for the results?
EXCLUSIVE — The American Association of University Professors has developed a “toolkit” alongside the youth wing of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Sunrise Movement to cause disruptions on college campuses intended to hamstring the enforcement of immigration laws, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The toolkit encourages ideologically motivated students to rally like-minded individuals to carry out a three-phase plan to pressure businesses to cut ties with immigration enforcement officials, according to documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
Phase one requires establishing an “organization committee” and distributing a petition calling on the university to sever relationships with businesses believed to be cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If demands are not met in a timely manner, activists are directed to “escalate” by protesting outside the homes of university officials, reaching out to influential alumni, and staging demonstrations.
If that fails, students are to skip class and engage in “indefinite” campus occupations, similar to tactics employed by pro-Palestinian protestors, until their demands are met. The document notes that the phase three tactics “have only been approved by Sunrise and [the Young Democratic Socialists of America.]”
The document does not include a principled objection to the tactics from the AAUP but rather states that “students can generally take more risks on campus than paid employees, and it’s important to be cognizant of that dynamic,” suggesting that the professors don’t necessarily oppose the tactics but that they are worried about job security.
A slide deck produced in conjunction with the AAUP-developed toolkit states that the movement’s strategy is to “create a crisis” for university leadership.
“This should be a wake up call for the public that activist professors are coordinating with far-left radicals to create chaos on campuses to achieve a leftwing political revolution,” Rhyen Staley, Defending Education’s director of research, told the Washington Examiner. “It is gross and unprofessional that these academics prefer to participate in the economic bullying of the very institutions that pay their salary instead of focusing on educating their students.”
A group of anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters shout slogans in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 27, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO …
Who's accountable for the results?
EXCLUSIVE — The American Association of University Professors has developed a “toolkit” alongside the youth wing of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Sunrise Movement to cause disruptions on college campuses intended to hamstring the enforcement of immigration laws, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The toolkit encourages ideologically motivated students to rally like-minded individuals to carry out a three-phase plan to pressure businesses to cut ties with immigration enforcement officials, according to documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
Phase one requires establishing an “organization committee” and distributing a petition calling on the university to sever relationships with businesses believed to be cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If demands are not met in a timely manner, activists are directed to “escalate” by protesting outside the homes of university officials, reaching out to influential alumni, and staging demonstrations.
If that fails, students are to skip class and engage in “indefinite” campus occupations, similar to tactics employed by pro-Palestinian protestors, until their demands are met. The document notes that the phase three tactics “have only been approved by Sunrise and [the Young Democratic Socialists of America.]”
The document does not include a principled objection to the tactics from the AAUP but rather states that “students can generally take more risks on campus than paid employees, and it’s important to be cognizant of that dynamic,” suggesting that the professors don’t necessarily oppose the tactics but that they are worried about job security.
A slide deck produced in conjunction with the AAUP-developed toolkit states that the movement’s strategy is to “create a crisis” for university leadership.
“This should be a wake up call for the public that activist professors are coordinating with far-left radicals to create chaos on campuses to achieve a leftwing political revolution,” Rhyen Staley, Defending Education’s director of research, told the Washington Examiner. “It is gross and unprofessional that these academics prefer to participate in the economic bullying of the very institutions that pay their salary instead of focusing on educating their students.”
A group of anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters shout slogans in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 27, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO …
‘Create a crisis’: Mainstream professor group partners with DSA to unleash anti-ICE chaos on campuses
Who's accountable for the results?
EXCLUSIVE — The American Association of University Professors has developed a “toolkit” alongside the youth wing of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Sunrise Movement to cause disruptions on college campuses intended to hamstring the enforcement of immigration laws, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The toolkit encourages ideologically motivated students to rally like-minded individuals to carry out a three-phase plan to pressure businesses to cut ties with immigration enforcement officials, according to documents obtained by Defending Education and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.
Phase one requires establishing an “organization committee” and distributing a petition calling on the university to sever relationships with businesses believed to be cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If demands are not met in a timely manner, activists are directed to “escalate” by protesting outside the homes of university officials, reaching out to influential alumni, and staging demonstrations.
If that fails, students are to skip class and engage in “indefinite” campus occupations, similar to tactics employed by pro-Palestinian protestors, until their demands are met. The document notes that the phase three tactics “have only been approved by Sunrise and [the Young Democratic Socialists of America.]”
The document does not include a principled objection to the tactics from the AAUP but rather states that “students can generally take more risks on campus than paid employees, and it’s important to be cognizant of that dynamic,” suggesting that the professors don’t necessarily oppose the tactics but that they are worried about job security.
A slide deck produced in conjunction with the AAUP-developed toolkit states that the movement’s strategy is to “create a crisis” for university leadership.
“This should be a wake up call for the public that activist professors are coordinating with far-left radicals to create chaos on campuses to achieve a leftwing political revolution,” Rhyen Staley, Defending Education’s director of research, told the Washington Examiner. “It is gross and unprofessional that these academics prefer to participate in the economic bullying of the very institutions that pay their salary instead of focusing on educating their students.”
A group of anti-US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters shout slogans in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 27, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO …
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