URGENT: Tell Presidents, Chancellors of Colleges, Universities Across the U.S. to Protect Campus Communities

Now more than ever, we need higher education leaders to fight and preserve the following values:

• Higher education is built on the principles of intellectual freedom, diversity, and the open exchange of ideas.
  
  
• College and university campuses must remain places where free speech is protected and the pursuit of knowledge is not stifled by fear.
  
  
• Immigration enforcement actions — especially those conducted without transparency, accountability, or due process — erode trust and endanger the very people who make our campuses vibrant and innovative spaces.
  
  
• International students and other non-citizen members of our campuses contribute immeasurably to the academic, cultural, and social fabric of our institutions and society.

Sign this petition to urge university and college presidents to stand up to Trump

We are calling on university and college presidents to publicly oppose immigration enforcement actions on campus and commit to ensuring that their institutions will not cooperate voluntarily with federal immigration enforcement agencies that seek to detain or deport students or community members. We are calling on them to enforce and strengthen campus policies that limit cooperation with immigration authorities unless legally compelled by a judicial warrant or other due process.

This is a moral issue. It is a matter of conscience, of justice, and of leadership. We urge these leaders to stand with students. We are telling them loud and clear that they must refuse to let institutions of learning become sites of fear and exclusion. They must protect the ideals their campuses claim to uphold.

Our universities and colleges must be sanctuaries of knowledge, not enforcement zones.

 

Sign this petition to urge higher education leaders to keep immigration enforcement off our campuses

Sincerely,
Democracy in Color

 

Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612.