“F*** ICE”: Vulgar, Anti-American “First Generation” UCLA Speaker Reflects Larger Problem

By Selwyn Duke

You probably wouldn’t, while a guest at someone’s home, want your child acting rudely and badmouthing the person. You also likely wouldn’t move to another country, someone else’s national home, and want your kid agitating against it.

But in America, in 2025, we’re “strengthened” by people such as Jamie Han, who describes herself as a “first-generation immigrant” and “a now citizen.” Strengthened how?

“I say, f*** ICE and f*** the Trump administration,” she exclaimed during a recent speech.

The scene was the commencement ceremony at UCLA’s College of Letters and Science. Han is supposedly the institution’s best and brightest, too, with sources identifying her as the school’s valedictorian. (Note: I’ve not been able to confirm this.)

Han’s speech, delivered in June, just recently went viral and has inspired calls for her deportation. (Again, though, she’s a citizen; she’d have to be denaturalized first.) Yet while this reaction isn’t surprising, what Han’s behavior is reflective of is more troubling than the behavior itself.

After all, the audience applauded her vulgar emanations — and adults who appeared to be professors in attendance registered approval.

The story also underlines why the Trump administration is freezing certain universities’ funding. As commentator Bill O’Reilly recently expressed, it’s wrong giving these schools countless millions in taxpayer money when they’re agitating against half of those taxpayers’ politics.

Trained in the Way She Shouldn’t Go

Han’s background is not exactly clear. She described herself in her speech as a “first-generation immigrant” and “a now citizen who has the privilege of not having to fear for my life every second of the day.” This was just before her anti-ICE comment, which implies that she had immigrant status and was naturalized. And some sources do describe her as “an immigrant.” Yet other sources call her a “first generation American,” and she does speak perfect American English.

Whatever the case, her American spirit could use some work. As The National News Desk reports on her words at the commencement, which took place June 13-15:

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,” Han 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 the crowd erupted in cheers and applause. Several people seated behind her on stage, likely professors, were seen clapping as well.

The latter part of Han’s comments can be heard in the video below.

Jamie Han’s UCLA graduation speech wasn’t your typical feel-good send-off.
In the middle of her address, the valedictorian took direct aim at U.S. immigration enforcement declaring “f**k ICE” and slamming the Trump administration’s policies.

The moment drew loud cheers from… pic.twitter.com/ogsBXbFuQB

— The Kind Joe (@TheKindJoe) August 10, 2025

Teach Your Children Well?

Han certainly has learned the talking points splendidly. And that she likely learned much or all of that narrative at college explains the following reportage by Meaww.com:

The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from UCLA in the White House’s latest effort to shape higher education and extract significant concessions from universities.

The administration began freezing millions in funding to UCLA last week, as the school’s chancellor, Julio Frenk, said in a letter to the university community this week that $584 million “is suspended and at risk” and warned of “devastating” consequences to its research mission.

And what is that “mission”? No one has to explain it to commentator Patricia McCarthy, who herself was a UCLA grad student 30 years ago. As she wrote Tuesday:

I can attest to the insidious attempted indoctrination that was the order of the day [even] then.

We were told not only what books to read but what books not to read.

And they meant it.

If a student used a quote from a proscribed book, he … would be mocked and downgraded. If a student criticized, for example, LBJ’s Great Society for the horrific damage it did to black families … well, that did not sit well and yet it has now been realized as tragically true.

There are countless examples of the professoriate of any major university in the U.S. of this kind of at first subtle, then overt anti-Americanism. It is meant to be the fuel of our destruction.

Higher Lower Education

McCarthy is correct. While most American colleges and universities were founded as Christian institutions, they’ve thoroughly rejected their original purpose. Oh, there are three R’s — even at colleges. But they’re now racism, revisionism, and relativism (with a fourth, ridiculousness, thrown in for bad measure). For such institutions today, being a left-wing propaganda mill is the norm, as the following New American essays/videos illustrate:

• “Diploma Disaster?
• “Craziness in Kids’ Classes”
• “How the U.S. Education Department Weaponized Schools Against US”
• “Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education”

Put differently, Han is symptomatic of a larger problem. Aside from indoctrination’s obvious effects, is it surprising when a newcomer begins to hate hosts who exhibit self-hatred? People tend to not respect those who don’t appear to respect themselves. And too many “Americans” want to make self-flagellation great again.

Educator Entropy

Academia’s failures are profound, too. Consider, for example, what some will fancy a small matter: Han’s use of vulgarity and the applause it evoked. It’s no surprise that her professors would agree with the substance of her message. Were they at all people of substance, however, they’d take issue with her style. As I explained in “Cussing & Cultural Decay” — with an invaluable assist from George Washington — vulgarity isn’t “just words.” It coarsens society and reflects vice. Should this surprise anyone? Just as language (vocabulary) can be a good proxy for IQ, it can also be a proxy for other deeper qualities.

There’s an irony here, too. In the dystopian future U.S. portrayed in the 2006 film Idiocracy, even politicians and other high-status people used vulgarity reflexively. How many ponder that we today are beginning to reflect this?

What’s Truly Lacking

Speaking of corruption, McCarthy mentions that the “equality/equity” people such as Han champion is an impossibility. “Anyone who cannot admit this is a moron,” she writes. “Marxists are morons.” And while the world’s Hans are book smart but street stupid, and while dismissing them with pejoratives sometimes has utility, it’s not that simple.

Such people could know the Truth just as virtually anyone else can.

They don’t want to.

Rather, they believe what they want to believe — and this, as with using vulgarity, reflects a lack of virtue.

Virtuous (habituated to morality) people exhibit Honesty, which results in caring about what is true and avoiding self-deception, aka rationalization. They exhibit Diligence, which results in conscientiously seeking facts, Truth. They exhibit Humility, which results in being willing to recognize and correct one’s own error. They exhibit Prudence, which results in being adept at discerning good from evil. They exhibit Temperance, which results in avoiding descent into negative radicalism. They exhibit Justice, Kindness, Forgiveness, and Charity, which results in giving others — and along with them their ideas — a fair shake in your own mind. Most of all, too, they exhibit Love, which provides the substrate in which the preceding virtues can flourish and ensures a person will put others’ good ahead of his own ego.

It’s easy to correct misinformation. Correcting the flawed emotional foundation, bred into a person from infancy, that makes misinformation appealing is a different matter.

                    This article was originally published at The New American.