Based on Campus Reform, “Greater than 45 scholar teams at George Washington College (GWU) signed a petition calling on the varsity administration to declare the varsity a ‘sanctuary campus’ for unlawful immigrants.”
Like a lot of academia, GWU is a hotbed of open borders liberalism.
On this particular case, the petition was launched by The GW Socialist Motion Initiative.
The group, in response to Washington Free Beacon, issued calls for for the college, “among the many calls for had been banning federal immigration enforcement officers from getting into campus and refusing to cooperate with authorities surveillance or deportation efforts.”
The Socialist radicals additionally issued a risk that “any deal that GW might attain with the Trump Administration will hurt scholar life and wellbeing.”
These calls for weren’t with out precedent at this college. Beforehand, GWU’s chapter of College students For Justice In Palestine made the same demand on Could third, “calling on the administration to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers and reject compliance with federal deportation orders.”
College students For Justice In Palestine additionally referred to as President Trump’s insurance policies a “terror marketing campaign” and stated the college was taking “blood cash” by agreeing to adjust to federal immigration regulation.
In one more instance of irrational intersectionality College students for Justice In Palestine circulated a petition saying the College’s silence within the face of federal intimidation is “violence in opposition to its noncitizen group members.”
The petition continued, “Whereas faculties throughout the nation stand tall in opposition to [Department of Homeland Security] and ICE cruelty, GW has promised to ‘do what’s required’ to proceed receiving this administration’s blood cash.”
Like different absurd campus teams, they use euphemisms to obscure their true intent. Noncitizen means unlawful.
That is however one absurd instance of leftist open borders activism on this campus. Beforehand, GWU school introduced the formation of a College for Justice in Palestine chapter, expressing assist for divestment from Israel and solidarity with radical scholar demonstrators.
The College has beforehand come below federal scrutiny.
The Trump Justice Division concluded GWU violated civil rights legal guidelines by not addressing harassment in opposition to pro-Israel college students in 2024 throughout the anti-Israel protests.
The DOJ wrote, “The administration took no significant motion and allowed abhorrent, immoral, and unlawful conduct to persist.”
