Arizona high school students push back against Turning Point USA club at their school

TUCSON – A group of high school students at a Tucson school is pushing back against a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) club on campus, saying they feel unsafe and that the club violates the school district’s student organization policies.

Latino Student Union members at Rincon High School were on their lunch break on Thursday when they saw a Turning Point USA representative, along with one of their teachers and a few students, recruiting for Club America, a TPUSA high school program.

Turning Point USA is a conservative nonprofit organization — linked to pushing controversial viewpoints, including supporting the immigration enforcement activity that has escalated across the country — that, according to its website, aims to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government.”…

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