A Call for Sanctuary

Will the new administration deliver on its immigration promises? It remains to be seen if Trump will revoke DACA, which would affect 750,000 undocumented young people who are now able to attend college, lawfully work, hold driver’s licenses, open bank accounts, and travel. Meanwhile, student and faculty petitions asking universities to declare themselves sanctuaries have garnered thousands of signatures. The campus sanctuary movement builds on a history of solidarity dating back to the Underground Railroad and northern refusal to comply with fugitive slave laws. The American public does not support mass removal of immigrants. Trump does not have a mandate to build a wall, to deport millions of people, to cancel DACA. This is where we draw a line in the sand. We have the power to resist and refuse—and to stop it.