Since the election, leaders of dozens of colleges and universities across the country have faced protests and petition drives calling on them to declare their institutions "sanctuary campuses" for undocumented immigrant students.
The calls have come from students, alumni, faculty and staff who are concerned about the prospect of stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws under a Donald J. Trump presidency and the possible elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, under which more than 700,000 young people have gained temporary protection from the possibility of deportation.
As formal responses to the various sanctuary campus petitions from college leaders have begun to roll in, some presidents have walked a fine line, outlining specific ways in which their institutions will not as a matter of policy voluntarily cooperate with federal officials in immigration law enforcement while avoiding adoption of the politically charged -- from some perspectives toxic -- term "sanctuary."
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/02/outlining-commitments-undocumented-immigrant-students-some-presidents-avoid-term