UC Irvine Professor's Petition to Designate UC Irvine as Sanctuary Campus

University Hills is a housing area adjacent to the UC Irvine campus where professors and their families reside. Below is a mass email sent out by a UCI professor in University Hills to other residents. It asks recipients to sign a petition that would designate UCI as a sanctuary campus for undocumented students. This email was forwarded to me by a friend who lives in University Hills. I am posting this without comment.

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From: Sara Wallace Goodman via Uhills
To: uhills@uhills.org
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 2:40 PM
Subject: [Uhills] Petition to designate UCI a sanctuary campus

Dear Colleagues in University Hills,

I write today to ask that you consider signing a petition (see link
below) to designate UCI a sanctuary campus. This means asking the
administration to take concrete steps to ensure a safe and secure
environment for education, research, and service for our undocumented
and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students, faculty,
workers, and friends.

The petition can be located here: https://goo.gl/forms/ig4o10eiRXUCVS022

This is a precautionary step in light of statements of intention by the
President-elect. If you are interested in learning about the
vulnerabilities of our DACA students, for example, I refer you to the
following news story:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/happen-daca-recipients-donald-trump/story?id=43546706


Thank you for your consideration,
Sara

--
Sara Wallace Goodman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine

Author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge UP, 2014)
**Winner, Best Book of the American Political Science Association's Section on European Politics & Society, 2015

Website: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/sgoodman

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