The protest was organized by a socialist group. What a surprise.
The GW Hatchet reports:
Students march through campus, renewing demands to declare GW ‘sanctuary campus’About 40 students marched through campus Thursday evening, calling on University President Ellen Granberg to declare GW a sanctuary campus and resist cooperation with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.The protest, organized by Socialist Action Initiative, started outside of Kogan Plaza on H Street, with protesters marching to Granberg’s F Street House and then the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, protesting the surge of National Guard troops on campus and demanding Granberg stand up to the Trump administration. Throughout the demonstration — which featured a heavy Metropolitan Police Department and GW Police Department presence — students also renewed previous demands for Granberg to declare GW a sanctuary campus, which would require GW to instate policies aimed at limiting the University’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.The group throughout the protest reiterated their six demands for officials, which they first began asking for in April, including banning federal law enforcement from campus, refusing compliance with the Trump administration, defending free speech and academic freedom, providing legal and financial support to those at risk of deportation, extending aid and scholarship to D.C. Public Schools students and committing to including greater student, staff and faculty input on major decisions.About 10 National Guard troops, which students have reported seeing more regularly throughout campus in the last week, showed up in Kogan at the start of the protest, though they left after a speaker in the crowd mentioned the presence of National Guard troops in the city.
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