UWT: Border Patrol ban chips away at liberty

Re: “Border Patrol asked not to attend UWT career fair,” (TNT, 2/26).

Can you imagine? Some local university officials and candidates for local elective office are backing students and faculty who imagine “they would feel unsafe and dissuaded from participating” if dastardly representatives of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBC) service were allowed to attend.

This behavior undermines our national integrity. The notion of free speech, the First Amendment of our Constitution, trumps other people’s discomfort as long as there is no appreciable harm to others.

When gangs of so-called adults support actions that undermine our Constitution, even though they may sound caring and harmless, they erode the fabric of order that meaningfully connects us all.

When supportive perspectives like law and order, mutual respect, negotiation, compromise, self-reflection, etc., are compromised, our freedom and liberty are threatened.

This story was originally published March 14, 2020 at 10:54 AM with the headline "UWT: Border Patrol ban chips away at liberty."