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Since Election Day, administrators from several major universities have been under pressure to officially declare their campuses sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants, with petitions at each college gaining thousands of signatures.
The petitions at Yale, Stanford, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brown all contain similar language. Each of the petitions claim that law enforcement and immigration officers cannot set foot on campus without administrators’ permission, citing a 2011 memo from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
New Haven, home of Yale, is already a sanctuary city, as is Oberlin and Palo Alto, where Stanford is located; Rhode Island, home to Brown, has designated the entire state as a sanctuary.
But Randa Tawil, a Ph.D. student at Yale who helped draft the letter there, says it’s still important to prompt administrators to designate campuses as sanctuaries because “Trump has threatened to federally defund sanctuary cities, and furthermore [universities] have a special obligation to create a safe environment for their students and families.”Sounds like a job for the National Guard to me....
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