This is all about virtue signaling, appearing to ‘do something’ to oppose the Trump administration.
Campus Reform reports:
American University students vote to protect illegal immigrants on campus: ‘Sanctuary campus’American University’s student body passed a referendum aimed at protecting illegal immigrant students at the university, which would also urge its campus to become a “sanctuary campus.”According to the resolution the student body will call on the university to protect the identities of undocumented students if persecuted by federal authorities, as well as banning ICE from school grounds, unless challenged by a judicial warrant. It passed earlier in March, according to The Eagle.“Should AU become a sanctuary campus, and adopt policies to protect students, staff and faculty from deportation and threat from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)” the referendum states.Specific actions mentioned in the referendum is a proposed policy to prohibit the university from collecting citizenship information from the university community.Other proposed policies state that the university must protect in confidentiality all student, staff and faculty identities and restrict any on campus appearance from ICE unless opposed by a judge’s order.The referendum then calls for the university’s administration to defy federal mandates and proceed with financially supporting legal support for “undocumented students” in the greater Washington DC area, commonly referred to as the DMV.“WHEREAS American University continues to support and fund the AU dream initiative to provide legal consolations and legal representations for undocumented students in any institutions in the DMV,” the resolution states.Despite not responding to Campus Reform’s multiple requests for comment on whether the university will adopt the resolution if approved by the student body, on February 6th, 2025, the university’s president Jonathan Alger, sent students an email titled Addressing Federal Executive Orders and Policy Actions, which stated that the university will stand behind students and support their academic and research mission despite federal directives jeopardizing them.
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