Students, staff, community hope to make EWU a sanctuary campus
Signs like the one above have been posted in throughout Eastern Washington University since the election of Donald Trump. Students and faculty are petitioning the university's board of trustees to make Eastern a sanctuary university to protect undocumented students, whom Trump has said he would deport if elected president.
Students, staff and community members started a petition that asks the Eastern Washington University board of trustees to make the college a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, staff and their family members who face imminent deportation.
The petition is in response to the 2016 election results and president-elect Donald Trump's promise to increase deportations of illegal immigrants after he takes office in January.
The petition has 10 requests, among those are assigning administration responsibility for counseling undocumented, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), people of...
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