Illinois university education course promotes leftist immigration talking points

Leaked PowerPoint classes from a first-year training course on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign reveal far-left biases on the subject of unlawful immigration, in addition to race and gender.

Fox Information Digital has acquired slides from a pupil whistleblower from EDUC 201, an training course for first-semester college students entitled “Id and Distinction in Training.”

The week 15 lesson was known as “Dwelling in Precarity: Understanding Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Pupil Populations,” with 25 slides selling left-wing speaking factors on immigration. The course is taught by Professor Gabriel Rodriguez on the faculty’s academic establishment.

The primary slide exhibits a photograph of an individual holding an indication throughout an illustration that reads: “No individual is prohibited.”

A slide from a College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign lecture from December 2025 exhibits a poster of an activist holding an indication that reads: “No human being is prohibited.” (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

The fifth slide is named ‘Language Issues’ and checks college students’ language use about immigration and immigrants.

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“Embrace using humanizing language when speaking about immigrant communities that lack documentation – think about using the language of ‘undocumented,’” the slide says.

“Using phrases akin to ‘unlawful immigrants’, ‘unlawful aliens’ or ‘illegals’ is dangerous, the slide says, explaining that using these phrases is ‘dehumanizing and demeaning’, that they reinforce current unfavorable stereotypes about immigrant communities and hyperlink immigration to crime, that they gas the angle that immigrants don’t have any rights and that they facilitate ‘scapegoat communities for bigger systemic points’.

The presentation explains the distinction between immigrants and refugees and emphasizes, with out distinguishing between unlawful and authorized immigrants, that “immigrants migrate to pursue higher alternatives (e.g., employment, training).” Refugees flee different nations to keep away from “persecution, battle or violence.”

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A slide from a December 2025 lecture on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign defines “key phrases” associated to immigration. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

Citing PBS Information, the presentation makes the doubtful declare that there are solely 13.7 million unlawful aliens in the US.

“Between 2007 and 2019, the variety of undocumented immigrants remained steady at round 11 million, however since then the numbers have elevated by virtually 3 million,” one slide says.

A 2018 Yale study concluded that, based mostly on an “extraordinarily conservative mannequin,” there are between 16 million and 29 million unlawful aliens in the US, with a median of twenty-two.1 million. These figures have been calculated earlier than the four-year Biden administration, which was identified for its open borders coverage.

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The presentation features a slide titled “Shifting Help for Immigrant/Refugee Pupil Populations in Faculties,” and consists of headlines in regards to the unfavorable tutorial impacts of stricter immigration insurance policies. The slide highlights that the anti-immigrant-refugee local weather will increase discriminatory practices, makes college students really feel unsafe, and will increase absenteeism, amongst different unfavorable penalties.

A slide from a December 2025 lecture on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign exhibits headlines indicating help for unlawful immigration. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

On slide 17 of the presentation is a research co-authored by Rodriguez known as, “’This Is What I am Going Via:’ Latinx Youth Schools in Suburban Faculties within the Period of Trump.” Rodriguez’s analysis examined the responses of 11 “Latinx youth” in predominantly white suburbs.

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A screenshot of his analysis refers to “White supremacy and xenophobia brought on by… Trump.”

On the identical slide, Rodriguez quotes one in every of his personal topics, Jose, an unlawful alien apprehensive about deportation.

“I am unable to consider one other time when my numbers have mattered essentially the most than after this election,” Jose’s quote says. “If one thing occurs to me, at the least I will have good grades, [to] construct on my case. If I am glorious, perhaps they will not kick me out. The concern is so actual. At this level we do not know what’s going to occur. My dad and mom inform me, ‘Do properly at school.’ So actually, I am value a grade now. I need to excel academically. Hopefully I am one of many good ones.”

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A slide from a December 2025 lecture on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign options the professor’s article criticizing Trump for “white supremacy” and “xenophobia.” (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

Extra slides present college students with details about work together with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a college setting.

A pupil within the class, who spoke to Fox Information Digital on situation of anonymity, stated these classes usually are not simply ideas for train future college students.

“So in school, my professor stored saying, ‘You as educators, you as future educators, you could do that, you could know this,'” the coed stated. “That is one thing he says time and again, identical to ‘we as future educators,’ which reminds us, oh, we have to use this once we train later..”

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Fox Information Digital additionally obtained slides from Week 8 of the training course, which centered on the implicit that means of silence within the classroom, and the way silence is typically the results of racial or gender discrimination.

An instance of that is “internalized oppression,” outlined as “perceived racial inferiority on the a part of individuals of coloration.”

“Let’s take into consideration how college students with minority identities (e.g., race, gender, sexuality) are silenced by friends and academics,” one slide says.

Silence could be a technique of survival and resistance, the presentation exhibits.

An entrance signal to the College of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. The College of Illinois is a state college in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. It presents training and analysis packages at each bachelor’s and grasp’s ranges to greater than 56,000 college students. (Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)

“Let’s think about how college students, particularly these with minority identities, use their company by turning to silence to withstand contexts they consider are dangerous to their id and sense of neighborhood,” one slide stated.

The next slides include anecdotes from individuals described as highschool college students. The supply of the anecdotes is unclear and Rodriguez didn’t reply to a request for remark searching for clarification.

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One tells the story of somebody named Joaquín, introduced as a senior in highschool, who reported that folks ignored him when he gave his opinion, and recommended that his race performed an element within the ignoring.

“Joaquín’s choice was calculated, as a result of he most popular to be silent, reasonably than proceed to topic himself to negation and dismissal,” was the conclusion of Joaquín’s story.

A slide from an October 2025 training course on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign attributes a pupil’s silence to racial animus. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

Extra slides embrace anecdotes about racism.

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“Throughout Lissette’s English class, she sat at her desk and took notes as she listened to the instructor assessment the agenda for the day. The scholars learn The Nice Gatsby and sat in small teams to reply dialogue questions. Lissette sat in a bunch with three feminine college students and started the dialog by suggesting reply the dialogue questions on their handout,” in keeping with an anecdote from a slide titled “Group Work Gone Improper.”

“Lissette didn’t full her suggestion as she was shortly interrupted by one in every of her white friends who recommended that the group first learn parts of the textual content aloud earlier than transferring on to answering the dialogue questions. The 2 white college students within the group delegated duties to Lissette and Marie, a feminine Asian pupil within the group. Throughout their group work, Lissette’s white classmates took time to socialize and left her and Marie out of the image.”

“This dialog highlights that even when Latin youth needed to take part verbally and take cost, as on this small group dialog, white youth typically didn’t permit this,” the following slide explains. (“Latine” is a gender-neutral time period used instead of “Latino” or “Latina”).

In response, the coed whistleblower from whom Fox Information Digital obtained the lecture slides joked that they have been quiet in school rising up, not due to racism or sexism, however merely due to their personalities.

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Silence can be brought on by elements akin to gender.

One anecdote, attributed to Clarissa, a highschool pupil, claims {that a} male classmate named Michael will get all of the credit score for the concepts created collectively.

“Nevertheless it’s undoubtedly the explanation there are fewer girls in management, as a result of I might solely deal with it for just a few months, after which I assumed, ‘I do not need to do that anymore,’” Clarissa concludes.

The presentation additionally lined “microaggressions,” outlined as “on a regular basis, verbal, nonverbal slights, insults, or insults, no matter intent, that ship a hostile, derogatory, or unfavorable message to the goal group based mostly solely on their membership in a minority group” – and “stereotype risk,” outlined as “a socially preconceived psychological risk that arises when somebody is in a state of affairs or does one thing that includes a unfavorable stereotype about one’s personal group.”

An October 2025 lecture from the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign defines “microaggressions.” (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)

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“So it is lots like, ‘These are the concepts you could have,’ and it is also type of attention-grabbing to me as a result of this class was required and this is without doubt one of the first training courses I am taking,” the training pupil advised Fox Information Digital.

“And up to now I have never really realized something for training, for instance about establishing a classroom, wThese strategies work finest for kids’s studying – identical to the core curriculum that kids will be taught, akin to math and science. I did not be taught something from that, as if this have been the primary.”

The College of Illinois didn’t return a request for remark.

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