A Chinese-American student of the University of California, Los Angeles, won applause at her valedictorian speech in which she blasted the Donald Trump administration and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ceremony took place last month but now that the video went viral, MAGA commentators pointed out that a UCLA professor or administrator was applauding and smiling. “The most interesting image here is the bearded UCLA administrator nodding and applauding. The Trump administration should make sure that gesture alone is extremely costly for the university,” Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza posted. Jamie Han, in her fiery speech, called herself a first-generation immigrant and now a citizen, as she criticized the administration for actively attacking democracy and freedom.“Education, free speech, and democracy itself is being threatened by the very institutions that claim to value it, and in a country that not only refuses to protect, but actively persecutes, scapegoats, and villainizes the indisputable backbone of immigrants who make America what it is,” she said. “Which as a first-generation immigrant myself, and as a now citizen who has the privilege of not having to fear for my life every second of the day, and as a communication major of all things, preaching up here about the importance of using your education and using your voice.”“Excuse my language, but to that I say, fu** ICE and fu** the Trump administration,” Han said as there were claps and the person, D’Souza pointed out, nodded. “This is so embarrassing on so many levels. Wow, where do you start. First, giving a political speech at a graduation, albeit to the approval of the teachers, definitely says dirtbag hit piece on it. Obviously she has been trained to be a Democrat pit bull as opposed to being a potential new hire at a Fortune 500 company,” one wrote commenting on D’Souza’s post. Many called for the speaker’s deportation, while others rued that there is no freedom of speech. The administration and UCLA are already at odds as Trump demanded $1 billion settlement from the university in exchange of the restoration of research funding that the administration recently stopped.
