A new report from an education defense group shows that a public Minnesota law school teaches “far left immigration activism” including arguing that law enforcement perpetuates “whiteness” and providing what critics say is a shield from deportation for criminal illegal aliens.

Research Director at Defending Education Rhyen Staley told The Center Square: “This case study [of the University of Minnesota Law School] is another reminder of the ideological capture of even highly respected academic degree programs.”

“The fact that a law school is training and using students for far-left social justice activism should be alarming to the American public,” Staley said.

“It erodes trust and confidence in time-honored respect for the Constitution and the law,” Staley said.

Defending Education’s report centers around the University of Minnesota Law School’s “James H. Binger Center for New Americans” and the way it is training its law students as it concerns illegal immigration.

The report said the Binger Center “trains law students in far-left immigration activism, provides pro bono services to illegal aliens facing deportation, and hosts events that promote radical policy goals.”

The University of Minnesota Law School has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment.

The Binger Center, itself, states on its website that it provides “urgently needed legal services for noncitizens, pursues litigation to improve our nation’s immigration laws, and supports noncitizens in the region through education and community outreach.”

Further, on its “About” webpage, the Binger Center said it was created “in response to a critical, unmet need for pro bono legal services in our immigrant and refugee communities.”

Defending Education’s report stated that “events, trainings, and forums” associated with the Binger Center “have covered topics such as ‘deportation abolition,’ including a nationwide effort to stop the deportation of Somali immigrants.”

“They have also focused on organizing union workers for immigration activism, argued that law enforcement perpetuates ‘whiteness,’ and discussed strategies for helping clients avoid deportation by hiding or leaving out details about criminal records,” the report said.

The report highlighted that the Binger Center’s activism “is not limited to migrants whose only offense is their immigration status.”

“The Center provides explicit resources and tips on how to shield criminal aliens from deportation by downplaying their offenses and ‘scrubbing’ legal records of their criminal acts,” the report said.

For instance, a “practice advisory” the Binger Center published for “immigration attorneys with clients facing drug offenses” advises attorneys to “‘scrub’ their clients’ record of conviction by ‘omitting mention of a specific substance in the record,’” according to Defending Education.

The advisory notes “that immigration judges will therefore be unable to find the ‘underlying facts of the substance involved’ during deportation proceedings,” Defending Education’s report said.

Another resource from the Binger Center discusses “the immigration-related consequences of criminal convictions” and advises offenders to “avoid admitting guilt or facts sufficient to prove guilt” or “facts showing baseness, vileness, depravity, or reprehensible conduct,” the report said.

Further, the report said “the school’s Student Legal Services also provides resources that guide students on how to handle interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including warnings that ICE ‘lies.’”

The Binger Center also provides a “Detainee Rights Clinic” where students are taught “to represent illegal aliens who are ‘impacted by either or both the criminal justice system and the immigration deportation system,’” according to Defending Education.