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White House fires back after left-wing professor said Trump wants to re-segregate schools
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Professors who appeared in a video on the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) YouTube page earlier this month discussed scheming against ICE operations, while one speculated that President Donald Trump plans to re-segregate schools.
Caroline Luce is a professor of social sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who appeared on the Nov. 6 episode titled “ICE AND HIGHER ED: DEFENDING OUR COMMUNITIES.”
The Trump administration has demanded $1 billion from the school to settle claims of rampant antisemitism, along with the demand that UCLA establishes a $172 million claims fund for alleged victims of violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Left: President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sept. 14, 2025, in Morristown, New Jersey. Right: A headshot of UCLA professor Caroline Luce taken on an unknown date. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; UCLA)
In exchange, the Trump administration would release $584 million in taxpayer-funded federal grants back to the school.
“Conceding to these demands would be sacrificing the sanctity of higher education as we know it in this country,” Luce, who twice referred to Trump as the “orange man,” said. “But among the demands are information-sharing demands, and that includes in regards to visa holders, which is to say international students who are here on student visas.”
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“It would demand access to students — undergraduate students — under the guise of trying to stomp out DEI, which we know is just a veiled excuse to re-segregate our universities, and that’s been borne out,” she said.
Asked how that claim has been “borne out,” Luce did not return a request for comment.
Police at UCLA were given permission to clear a massive anti-Israel demonstration. (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)
“During the Biden years, radical left-wing activists at universities separated and pit students against each other on the basis of race all in the name of DEI. President Trump put a stop to those divisive and un-American DEI programs to recenter the focus of education on merit,” a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Under President Trump’s bold leadership, promoting academic excellence is the number one objective once again in American education.”
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The conversation was hosted by New York University (NYU) professor Chenjerai Kumanyika, an AAUP National Council member. Kumanyika referred to Trump’s UCLA demands as “extortion.”
The panel also featured Aaron Krall, an English lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the president of UIC Faculty United, another union on campus.
He said his union is actively working with community organizations on “rapid response” to ICE operations, and giddily informed Luce and Kumanyika that in Chicago, “everybody’s got a whistle now.”
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Cook County Sheriff Police detain a protester outside an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo)
Anti-ICE activists have taken to blowing whistles when agents are conducting operations, signaling community members and other activists to mob and film the agents as they work, causing havoc.
“But this is a way to make people feel comfortable going out into the streets and pushing back, saying that we disapprove, yelling at the fascists, getting in their faces,” Krall said. “It’s been amazing.”
He told Kumanyika he “didn’t want to go into the rapid response training too much,” with a coy smile.
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“I get it,” Kumanyika replied with a chuckle. “Like, there’s only so granular we’re going to get about the nature of the planning.”
Referring to ICE arrests, Krall also claimed that the law enforcement entity had “abducted” people from Chicago.
Krall, Kumanyika, UCLA and the AAUP did not respond to requests for comment.
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One of San Francisco’s busiest freeways remained shut down Saturday, creating major traffic delays and dampening business for some local restaurants and shops.
All eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 just before the Bay Bridge are closed as crews work around the clock to rehabilitate the roadway. The 55-hour shutdown, which began on Friday night, is scheduled to last until Monday morning in time for the commute.
The closure has forced drivers onto detour routes, leading to heavy congestion for those trying to reach the East Bay, including Oakland and Berkeley.
The impact is being felt beyond the roadways.
At MoMo’s, a restaurant across from Oracle Park, staff found business noticeably slower.
“A little bit more mellow than usual. We usually see a little bit more foot traffic, a little bit more people on Saturdays,” said Daniel Bermudez, executive chef at MoMo’s.
Bermudez believes the freeway closure may be discouraging visitors from coming into the city this weekend, despite favorable weather.
“The weather is beautiful today. It’s nice and sunny. So we have plenty of tables outside,” he said.
With the San Francisco Giants playing an away game, the restaurant had hoped fans would still gather to watch, but turnout during game time remained light.
“This is kind of like our off-season Saturday. A lot slower than our baseball weekend,” said Casandra Alarcon, general manager at MoMo’s.
Other small businesses in the Mission Bay and South of Market neighborhoods reported similar trends, saying most of their customers are regulars who live nearby rather than visitors.
“A little bit slower for sure. Before, we had tourists come and walk to the baseball park,” said Ajaree Safron, manager at Brickhouse Cafe & Bar.
Caltrans has shut down eastbound lanes between 17th and 4th streets to repave the 71-year-old roadway. The goal is to extend the life of the Bayshore Freeway by another decade.
City and transportation officials said the timing of the closure was intentional, noting fewer major events scheduled in San Francisco this weekend, aside from the Cherry Blossom Festival.
Westbound lanes remain open, and officials said traffic heading into San Francisco from the East Bay has not been significantly affected.
“Getting into the city, it wasn’t too bad. Regular [traffic], what we expect on a Saturday morning,” said visitor Andrea Inouye.
While the closure has posed challenges for businesses, some workers said they are taking it in stride.
“Hopefully, it’s not for too long and we get past it, and get back to our normal routine,” Bermudez said.
Despite early concerns about widespread gridlock, transportation officials said the region has avoided the worst-case scenario. Traffic remains heavy in areas near detours, but the anticipated “carmageddon” has not materialized, in part because many drivers chose to avoid the area or take public transit.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
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