New Brunswick, NJ – College Students Protest Donald Trump’s Deportation Plans

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    A student holds a sign as she joins a large crowd gathered to protest some of President elect Donald Trump policies and to ask school officials to denounce his plans at Rutgers University  Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. College students at campuses around the United States say they are planning rallies and walkouts to call on school administrators to protect students and employees against immigration proceedings under Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)New Brunswick, NJ – College students at campuses around the United States marched and rallied Wednesday, urging administrators to protect students and employees against immigration action under a Donald Trump presidency.

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    Rallying supporters on social media with the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, organizers said actions were planned at more than 80 schools, including Vermont’s Middlebury College, where about 400 people gathered, and Yale University, where demonstrators numbered about 600.

    Students sought assurances that their schools would not share their personal information with immigration officials or allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus.

    “Can you imagine the fear that it would inflict on college campuses if having ICE agents walk into a campus becomes the status quo?” organizer Carlos Rojas of the group Movimiento Cosecha, said by phone from New Jersey. “It would be terrifying.”

    The actions continued days of demonstrations that have broken out in cities and high school campuses following Trump’s election victory last week. The Republican’s campaign promises included a vow to deport millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

    “I’m very fearful,” said Miriam Zamudio, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 6 or 7.

    She worries that the family information she provided on her application for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Status will endanger her parents, who are living in the country without legal permission.

    “We don’t know what Trump is going to do,” Zamudio said by phone as she prepared to join a protest at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “We don’t know if he is going to demand this information and we want our administration and our school to stand with us.”
    Hundreds of Rutgers University students block College Ave., in New Brunswick, N.J., as they march to protest some of President elect Donald Trump's policies and to ask school officials to denounce some of his plans at Rutgers University Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. College students at campuses around the United States say they are planning rallies and walkouts to call on school administrators to protect students and employees against immigration proceedings under Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
    Faculty and staff at several universities have signed petitions in support of making their campuses sanctuaries for people threatened with deportation — or anyone who faces discrimination.

    “We are alarmed at the vitriol that students and community members are experiencing across the United States in the aftermath of the recent election. Reports of gross imitations of disabled youth, threats to aid in the deportation of students and their families, renewed deployments of the ‘N’ word, sexual aggressions against young women, bullying of Muslim and LGBTQ+ youth, reappearances of swastikas, among other acts, point to hostilities that infiltrate our campus,” petition to administrators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said.

    At the University of Memphis, students chanted “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here” and “No racists, no KKK, no fascist USA,” The Commercial Appeal reported.
    A few Donald Trump supporters carry a banner as they join hundreds of Rutgers University students blocking College Ave., in New Brunswick, N.J., as they march to protest some of President elect Donald Trump's policies and to ask school officials to denounce some of his plans at Rutgers University  Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in New Brunswick, N.J. College students at campuses around the United States say they are planning rallies and walkouts to call on school administrators to protect students and employees against immigration proceedings under Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
    Junior Luke Wilson stood nearby, holding a sign that said “You’re all cry babies.”

    Similar sentiments appeared on Twitter and other social media platforms, along with messages of support.

    “We know that there are going to be people on both sides of the issue,” Rojas said. “But I think that what no one could argue with is that a university and a college campus have a moral responsibility to make the students that are paying tuition and just want to get an education feel safe.”

    Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary Gillian Christensen said existing ICE and Customs and Border Protection policies guide enforcement at “sensitive locations,” which include colleges and universities.

    “The ICE and CBP sensitive locations policies, which remain in effect, provide that enforcement actions at sensitive locations should generally be avoided, and require either prior approval from an appropriate supervisory official or exigent circumstances necessitating immediate action,” Christensen said by email. “DHS is committed to ensuring that people seeking to participate in activities or utilize services provided at any sensitive location are free to do so without fear or hesitation.”

    Yale Ph.D. student Ramon Garibaldo told the crowd to remain hopeful.

    “I fear for my existence every day,” said Garibaldo, whose parents brought him from Mexico. “My mom, my dad they crossed borders for me to be here. So we aren’t going to bow down to the orders of one man.”


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    Applestein
    Applestein
    7 years ago

    If we deport them then they can protest in the Arab countries. I am ok with that

    pushkin
    pushkin
    7 years ago

    Not one word that they are illegals

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    7 years ago

    Those of you who have groceries delivered in Boro Park will have to bring your own groceries home after the deportations begin. On the brighter side those delivery bikes will no longer interfere with traffic.

    abilenetx
    abilenetx
    7 years ago

    Maybe these great students can write a paper the difference between illegal and legal immigrants through out the ages. Maybe then they can understand free education for illegal immigrants takes away money from legal and American students who need the money for their own schooling. When it comes time for some of these students who need government money to continue schooling and they say sorry there is no more money, I can hear the whining and crying now. All I would say is too bad.

    concerned_Jew
    concerned_Jew
    7 years ago

    Biased article. Biased in favor or the Anti-Trump protestors. He doesn’t have the power to deport them. And they should respect the country and stop whining.