{"id":222710,"date":"2026-04-08T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:04:10","slug":"tampa-bay-students-for-a-democratic-society-protest-against-usf-collaboration-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222710\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society protest against USF collaboration with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3465-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-256708 size-256708 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society protesting ICE on the corner of USF Palm and Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA\u2013 Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society held a demonstration on Tuesday to protest against the University of South Florida Police Department\u2019s collaboration with Immigration and Customs enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, USF put a pause on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/working-in-the-united-states\/h-1b-specialty-occupations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H-1B visas<\/a> that provided non-immigrant, temporary work authorization in the U.S. for faculty. Along with that, the USFPD signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/identify-and-arrest\/287g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">287g agreement<\/a> with the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement creates a partnership between ICE and state or local law enforcement, like USFPD. It authorizes officers to perform some immigration enforcement acts. Victoria Hinckley, a long time member of Tampa Bay SDS says this makes campus unsafe for many students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to show USF that, you know, we\u2019re not going to just let them sign the 287g program and sign all the collaboration with ICE without students making a stand for it, cause we don\u2019t want to see ICE on our campus,\u201d said Hinckley. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to see Border Patrol at our career fairs anymore. We don\u2019t want to see USFPD be trained by ICE and we don\u2019t want to see our international and our immigrant students be harmed this way and be attacked this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USF International Students<\/p>\n<p>According to USF, more than 7,000 international students attended during the 2023-2024 academic year. However, by December of 2025, USF lost over 260 international students during fall enrollment. Saba Indawala, a member of Tampa Bay SDS, said this collaboration should be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want USFPD to break that contract with DHS,\u201d said Indawala. \u201cWe want USF to do something against this pause on H-1B visas. So, we demand that there\u2019s a restoration of H-1B visas and end to 287g agreements and we demand a sanctuary campus now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay SDS plans on having more protests in the near future to continue advocating against USF\u2019s collaboration with ICE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society protesting ICE on the corner of USF Palm and Fletcher. TAMPA\u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56978,132,135,11114,137,136,1537],"class_list":["post-222710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-immigration-protests","tag-police","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-sds","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-usf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}