What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA
Shortly after the Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would rescind a federal program that offered legal protections to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, dozens of universities declared their virtually unanimous opposition to the move. Major colleges and higher-ed systems and associations issued a cascade of critical statements — a wave of condemnation reminiscent of higher ed's response to President Trump's travel ban.
Here's a brief, incomplete rundown of what some major colleges said of the order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA:
The University of California at Berkeley sent a stark message on social media, tweeting, "We stand with our undocumented students." In a statement, the university's chancellor, Carol Christ, and two other administrators wrote that the university would lobby its Congressional representatives to "take action to provide protection for our undocumented students and give them a path to permanent residency and eventually citizenship."
At Columbia University, Suzanne Goldberg, a professor and the executive vice president for university life, issued a letter condemning the decision to terminate DACA. . .