This is why the UC should immediately have all of its Federal funding stopped. They are using tax dollars and government resources to protect and promote illegal aliens. Even better, they are using resources to keep illegal aliens in this country, to the detriment of other students and Americans truly in need.
“After President Donald Trump’s nationwide tightening of immigration restrictions, as well as reports of the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Bay Area, the UC system has released an Immigration Sweeps Toolkit.
Made for students, staff, faculty and administrators, the document is a briefing meant to “safeguard our campus from disruptions to our academic environment, and to ensure that our campus community is equipped to respond.”
The toolkit was made to operationalize the “University of California Statement of Principles in Support of Undocumented Members of the UC Community,” a statement released Jan. 22.
The statement says the UC system will continue to “admit students without regard to a student’s race, color, national origin, religion, citizenship or other protected characteristic.”
The UC system has now declared that being a law breaker is a protected characteristic. That alone should end Federal dollars to the UC system, they are protecting criminal enterprises.
UC system releases Immigration Sweeps Toolkit
Nolan Zils | Staff, Daily Californian, 2/7/25 https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/uc-system-releases-immigration-sweeps-toolkit/article_3894bcc8-e52c-11ef-a32f-5f007068c28a.html
The Immigration Sweeps Toolkit, made to protect students from immigration enforcement sweeps, outlines UC employee and student rights.
After President Donald Trump’s nationwide tightening of immigration restrictions, as well as reports of the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Bay Area, the UC system has released an Immigration Sweeps Toolkit.
Made for students, staff, faculty and administrators, the document is a briefing meant to “safeguard our campus from disruptions to our academic environment, and to ensure that our campus community is equipped to respond.”
The toolkit was made to operationalize the “University of California Statement of Principles in Support of Undocumented Members of the UC Community,” a statement released Jan. 22.
The statement says the UC system will continue to “admit students without regard to a student’s race, color, national origin, religion, citizenship or other protected characteristic.”
The statement also said the UC system will provide protection in the event of immigration enforcement sweeps by not giving confidential student record information such as immigration status unless given permission by the student, or required by law, judicial warrants or subpoenas.
“Federal law protects student privacy rights, and the California Constitution and statutes provide broad privacy protection to all members of the UC community,” the statement said.
The first part of the toolkit explains the difference between public and restricted spaces and the authority immigration enforcement officers have in these spaces to enforce federal law.Despite being reaffirmed as a sanctuary city last month, UC Berkeley, along with all of the other UCs, are public universities with substantial amounts of land open to the public. As a result, the toolkit notes UCs don’t have “the authority to prohibit federal immigration enforcement officers from coming on campus to enforce federal law.”
However, in restricted access spaces such as residence halls and campus housing, as well as limited access spaces such as classrooms and faculty offices, UC employees have some rights.
“UC employees are not required to affirmatively assist federal immigration authorities or grant permission to enter limited access space when officers do not have a judicial warrant to enter,” the toolkit said.
The toolkit also said some warrants, such as civil and administrative warrants, do not allow what is described as “entry without consent.” Criminal search or arrest warrants, however, can authorize entry.
Campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore said in an email that UC Berkeley will continue to support students, staff and faculty.
“The campus is proactively working to support campus offices and students who could be impacted by changes in immigration enforcement, consistent with UC and campus policies,” Gilmore said in the email.
