Sanctuary

Sanctuary Cities

According to Villazor, sanctuary cities are cities in which they “have adopted sanctuary, non-cooperation, or confidentiality policies for undocumented residents, which may be viewed as inclusionary types of laws” (576). In many of these cities, employers are not allowed to ask about or report immigration status to the federal government and they cities do not allow city funds to go toward federal enforcement of immigration law. Among these cities are San Francisco  and Seattle. It has caused some tension with the nation-state, but it is also the stepping stones for a new important movement currently sweeping the country.

Sanctuary Campuses

Here at the University of Puget Sound, President Crawford sent out an email on November 21st, 2016 to inform the campus that he signed a petition to urge for the continuation and expansion of DACA, along with many other college/university presidents across the the country. This petition comes in light of the current presidential election. Prior to the election, Donald Trump said he would end DACA if he became president, but did not specify what actions he would take. Without DACA, many students are fearing that they will lose their rights to an education or get deported. In an article by Inside Higher Education, it shows that many presidents have been speaking out and praising their students who are registered with DACA as hard workers and they believe these students should continue what they are doing and have continued education (Redden, 2016).

With the uncertainty that still surrounds what is going to happen to DACA, there is an increase in anxiety for undocumented students (Redden, 2016). Many of those undocumented students are urging colleges across the country to offer them the same or similar rights to the ones offered in sanctuary cities (Deruy, 2016). These colleges are considered sanctuary campuses, and those colleges would work against the federal government in hopes of prevented undocumented students from being deported. There has currently been no scholarly research done on the sanctuary campus movement as this is a fairly new movement, but the article by the Atlantic points out that the movement has picked up speed since the election of Donald Trump and his promise to deport millions of immigrants (Deruy, 2016).

In his email, President Crawford loosely defines a sanctuary campus as  “those that promise to not assist federal immigration officials in the investigation of the immigration status of members of a campus community—students, faculty, and staff alike.” He states that our campus already adheres to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, offers admission regardless of citizenship status and offers financial aid for which the student is eligible for, all of which consist with the ideals of sanctuary campuses, but he does not consider the University of Puget Sound a sanctuary campus.  He mentions that the tricky part is that there is still currently no nation-wide definition for a sanctuary campus, so the ideals may vary by university.

Despite the good intentions of sanctuary campuses and that many undocumented students are fighting for sanctuary campuses, there are some negative connotations that come with them. The term is not well specified and could potentially jeopardize the colleges who define themselves as sanctuary campuses because they could lose state and federal funding (Guillermo, 2016). Although it is brave of institutions to say they will be a sanctuary campus, using the term “sanctuary” could hurt their image or go against their values. This is a hard topic to make an argument on because it is such a new term and their are few scholarly sources about it. Most of the articles written about losing funding and all of the negative implications, as well as the articles written in support of sanctuary campuses are simply speculation of what would be, and they are just reports. Media biases may play a huge role in the connotation of the articles, which is why at this time it is not safe to make an argument in support or against sanctuary campuses.

Presidents and Chancellors Who Signed the DACA Petition (alphabetical by institution)

• James Mullen, Allegheny College
• Jeff Abernathy, Alma College
• Biddy Martin, Amherst College
• Paul Pribbenow, Augsburg College
• Leon Botstein, Bard College
• Debora Spar, Barnard College
• Clayton Spencer, Bates College
• Mariko Silver, Bennington College
• Clayton Rose, Bowdoin College
• Christina Paxson, Brown University
• Kimberly Cassidy, Bryn Mawr College
• Steven Lavine, California Institute of the Arts
• Chris Kimball, California Lutheran University
• Mildred García, California State University, Fullerton
• Barbara Snyder, Case Western Reserve University
• Brian Casey, Colgate University
• Sarah Bolton, College of Wooster
• Katherine Bergeron, Connecticut College
• Yves Salomon-Fernandez, Cumberland County College
• Phil Hanlon, Dartmouth College
• Carol Quillen, Davidson College
• Claire Sterk, Emory University
• Daniel Porterfield, Franklin & Marshall College
• Elizabeth Davis, Furman University
• John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University
• Janet Morgan Riggs, Gettysburg College
• Jose Antonio Bowen, Goucher College
• Raynard Kington, Grinnell College
• David Wippman, Hamilton College
• Drew Faust, Harvard University
• James Troha, Juniata College
• Sean Decatur, Kenyon College
• Teresa Amott, Knox College
• Randal Wisbey, La Sierra University
• Jonathan Burke, Laguna College of Art and Design
• Barry Glassner, Lewis & Clark College
• Timothy Law Snyder, Loyola Marymount University
• Brian Linnane, S.J., Loyola University Maryland
• Brian Rosenberg, Macalester College
• Lucas Lamadrid, Marymount California University
• Richard Moran, Menlo College
• Laurie Patton, Middlebury College
• Beth Hillman, Mills College
• Sonya Stephens, Mount Holyoke College
• Morton Schapiro, Northwestern University
• Judith Maxwell Greig, Notre Dame de Namur University
• Marvin Krislov, Oberlin College
• Jonathan Veitch, Occidental College
• Lawrence Schall, Oglethorpe University
• Michael Sorrell, Paul Quinn College
• Eric Barron, Pennsylvania State University
• Melvin L. Oliver, Pitzer College
• David Oxtoby, Pomona College
• Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University
• John Kroger, Reed College
• David Leebron, Rice University
• Eugene Cornacchia, Saint Peter’s University
• Michael Engh, Santa Clara University
• Karen Lawrence, Sarah Lawrence College
• Lara Tiedens, Scripps College
• Kathleen McCartney, Smith College
• Edward B. Burger, Southwestern University
• Satish K. Tripathi, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Samuel Stanley, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Valerie Smith, Swarthmore College
• Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Trinity College
• Danny Anderson, Trinity University
• Anthony Monaco, Tufts University
• Ralph Hexter, University of California, Davis
• Howard Gillman, University of California, Irvine
• Pradeep Khosla, University of California, San Diego
• Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Downtown
• Bernadette Gray-Little, University of Kansas
• Devorah Lieberman, University of La Verne
• Wallace Loh, University of Maryland, College Park
• Mark Schlissel, University of Michigan
• Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania
• Isiaah Crawford, University of Puget Sound
• Ralph Kuncl, University of Redlands
• James Harris, University of San Diego
• Paul Fitzgerald, University of San Francisco
• Denise Doyle, University of the Incarnate Word
• Pamela Eibeck, University of the Pacific
• Stephen Morgan, University of the West
• Jonathan Chenette, Vassar College
• Tori Haring-Smith, Washington & Jefferson College
• Kenneth Ruscio, Washington and Lee University
• Paula Johnson, Wellesley College
• Michael Roth, Wesleyan University
• Sharon Herzberger, Whittier College
• Stephen Thorsett, Willamette University
• Adam Falk, Williams College
• Peter Salovey, Yale University