Students at college campuses across the country led walkouts on Wednesday, protesting the immigration proposals of President-elect Donald Trump and calling on their universities to protect undocumented immigrants.
Through petitions and protests this week, students have asked universities to declare themselves “sanctuary campuses,” a term that mirrors the classification of “sanctuary cities,” which have pledged to do what they can to protect residents from deportation. On Wednesday, at schools from Amherst College in Massachusetts to East Los Angeles College in California, students walked out to request the same of their campuses.
“Given the outcome of the Presidential election, we call on Oberlin College to stand with other colleges and universities and investigate how to make Oberlin a sanctuary campus that will protect our community members from intimidation, unfair investigation, and deportation,” students at Ohio’s Oberlin College wrote Monday in a letter to the college president, signed by more than 2,400 students, faculty, alumni and family members.
It is great to see this kind of action around the nation. I wish we could of done this sooner.
