A Kansas community college professor is facing backlash after calling for the doxxing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and encouraging activists to interfere with immigration enforcement operations.
Steve Werkmeister, an English professor at Johnson County Community College, made a post on BlueSky promoting tactics for anti-ICE activists. He reposted a flyer distributed by left-wing groups that urged activists to use whistles to disrupt ICE operations. The flyer instructed participants to blow whistles to “follow ICE caravans,” “alert neighbors to join in,” and “catch up with the crowd.”
Werkmeister also shared a post from a far-left activist encouraging people to expose relatives who work for ICE.
“Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members,” the post stated. “They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.”
According to a report by Fox News, Werkmeister has described federal immigration enforcement as “kidnapping” and claimed he fears that he and his family could be “kidnapped” because of their “brown” skin color.
“I’ve talked to our chair and the college president to see if I can just move online and teach from a safe location overseas (my family and I can be kidnapped by the government at any time since our skin is brown), and so far they’re compassionately noncommittal (lots of empty phrases),” he wrote in a post last week.
Werkmeister has also posted comments attacking white people, writing that white Americans want “brown folks back to the fields.”
“It’s tough to live with the knowledge that whenever I go to the store, or to my office, or out for a walk, or anywhere really, packs of white ‘Americans’ are out hunting and kidnapping people who look like me,” he wrote in another post in June. “It’s psychological terrorism for the crime of being born brown in America.”
In a brief statement to Fox News, a spokesman for Johnson County Community College said, “JCCC is an open dialog institution, and the values of Johnson County Community College is something we hold true for all.”
