BY HANK REICHMAN In a small victory for the sanctuary movement, recruiters from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) won’t have a booth at the Rutgers University-Newark Government and Public Service Fair. Students from RU Dreamers, a group for undocumented immigrants and their allies, organized an online “ICE is not welcome here” petition calling on…
BY HENRY REICHMAN On Thursday, May 18, California State University, Los Angeles student and immigration rights activist Claudia Rueda was taken into custody by Border Patrol agents as she moved her family’s car outside their home. Federal agents had detained Rueda’s mother earlier this month. The following statement on her detention was released today by the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jeremy Redmon reports on a judicial decision that “Dreamers” should pay in-state tuition while attending public colleges and universities in Georgia: Georgia residents who have received a special reprieve from deportation from the Obama administration may begin paying in-state tuition here under a…
BY KELLY HAND The sanctuary campus movement calling on campuses to provide a safe space for undocumented students has been growing quickly since the election. In November the AAUP issued a statement saying the following about sanctuary campuses: “Of special importance is the status of those among our students who are undocumented, many of whom…
BY RACHEL BUFF …it means nothing… …it means everything. …It’s purely symbolic… …it will get us in trouble. Rumors swirl about the current movement to adopt sanctuary campus policies in universities and K-12 schools. Emerging from immigrant rights and students of color organizations, the #SanctuaryCampus movement responds to threats made against immigrant and Muslim communities…
BY HANK REICHMAN Leaders of California’s three systems of public higher education sent a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump today urging him to allow students who are in the country illegally to continue their educations without fear of deportation. The letter, signed by University of California President Janet Napolitano, California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White and Eloy…
BY HANK REICHMAN On November 18, the American Association of University Professors joined the American Federation of Teachers, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more than 100 other organizations in a letter calling on president-elect Donald Trump to denounce acts of hate on college campuses and elsewhere. That morning I spoke at a press conference…