Students petition for ‘sanctuary campuses’ for unauthorized immigrants

Now that it’s been a week since Donald Trump was elected president, students on college campuses are worried about the status of undocumented immigrants fearing mass deportations.

Students at Harvard University have started a petition to the school’s administration to protect undocumented students and devote resources to assisting those particular students by hiring additional staff.

According to the Harvard Crimson, the petition has garnered over 4,000 signatures demanding their campus be a sanctuary to their undocumented classmates.

The President-elect campaigned on a tough immigration agenda, promising to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants and building a wall along the U.S. Mexico border. In a recent 60 Minutes interview, however, Trump admitted that he would deport mainly “the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers,” which, by his estimation, amounts to about two to three million undocumented immigrants.

“We do not need words of comfort, your pity, or your sympathy,” the petition reads. “We need action that demonstrates this University’s dedication to concretely support all of its students, regardless of their immigration status.”