Tuesday 
evening, 
Central 

Student 
Government 
hosted 

their first meeting of the school 
year under new administration, 
with 
LSA 
senior 
Anushka 

Sarkar as president. Despite 
the brief interruption of a fire 
alarm in the Michigan Union, 
the meeting continued, focusing 
on welcoming members back to 
campus.

A major focal point of the 

meeting involved the Trump 
administration’s announcement 
this morning of the dissolution 
of the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program. 
Under the new policy, those who 
have a status that will expire in 
the next six months can have 
their permits renewed. During 
these six months, Congress 
has the responsibility to decide 
whether these policies will move 
forward and if those protected 
under DACA will officially lose 
their status.

Community 
member 

Kate Stenvig, member of the 
University’s chapter of By All 
Means Necessary, addressed her 
concerns to CSG following a rally 

in the Diag and march around 
campus earlier in the afternoon. 
She stated that she hopes, in the 
coming weeks, to bring forward 
a resolution in support of DACA.

“This is a real overreach of 

Trump to try to do this,” she said. 
“It’s also a really desperate act 
because basically all that he has 
promised is a lot of deportation.”

Sarkar 
also 
voiced 
the 

importance of CSG taking a 
stand against this act from the 
Trump administration. Earlier 
in the day, CSG posted a status 
on Facebook informing those 
currently reliant on the program 
of their options to secure permit 
renewal.

“CSG has for the last couple 

of years and will continue to this 
year stand by DACAmented and 
undocumented students,” she 
said. “DACAmented students 
are an important part of our 
community.”

Sarkar also discussed the 

recent racist writing found on 
the Rock and detailed CSG’s goal 
of responding to these sorts of 
incidents in meaningful ways. 

City 
Council 
passed 
a 

resolution 
Tuesday 
taking 

a stand against the Trump 
administration’s controversial 
travel ban.

Trump issued his first 

executive order in January, 
forbidding 
citizens 
from 

seven 
Muslim-majority 

countries from entering the 
United States for 90 days, 
stopping 
resettlement 
of 

refugees for 120 days and 
indefinitely 
suspending 

resettlement 
of 
Syrian 

refugees. The ban, which 
came into effect immediately 
after 
its 
announcement, 

resulted 
in 
disorder 
and 

fierce protests at airports 
across the country.

The 
local 
resolution 

specifically authorized listing 
Ann Arbor as a supporting 
municipality in an amicus 
brief to be filed with the 
U.S. Supreme Court from the 
State of Hawaii and Ismail 
Elshikh v. Donald J. Trump, 
et al., which will determine 
the constitutionality of the 
president’s executive order.

Councilmember 
Jack 

Eaton (D–Ward 4) praised 
the resolution, as it will allow 
Ann Arbor to take a stand 
against the travel ban at no 
cost. He noted Ann Arbor’s 
unique position as a college 
town and the city’s tradition of 
welcoming talented individuals 
from all over the world.

“We want our residents … 

to feel comfortable to come in 
from anywhere in the world,” 
Eaton said. “Having a threat 
such as this travel ban really 
does significant harm to our 
town.”

Following two federal court 

decisions that blocked the ban, 
the 
Trump 
administration 

released a second version of 
the order that eliminated its 
most controversial parts. For 
example, provisions in the 
initial executive order like 
giving preference to religious 
minorities (widely interpreted 
to mean Christians) once the 
resettlement program resumed 
gave reason for critics to call 
the order a “Muslim ban.”

Chants 
denouncing 
the 

repeal of Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals filled the 
streets of Ann Arbor during 
BAMN’s Emergency Rally to 
Defend DACA early Tuesday 
evening. 
The 
Coalition 
to 

Defend 
Affirmative 
Action, 

Integration 
and 
Immigrant 

Rights 
By 
Any 
Means 

Necessary 
organized 
the 

protest as a result of President 
Donald 
Trump’s 
recent 

decision to rescind the DACA 
policy. 

BAMN’s list of demands 

included 
defending 
DACA, 

turning Ann Arbor into a 
sanctuary 
city 
and 
taking 

action to stop Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement raids 
and deportations. The event 
began with a rally explaining 
BAMN’s objectives in the Diag, 
followed by a march around 
campus.

Protesters 
included 
Ann 

Arbor 
community 
members 

and University of Michigan 
students 
from 
various 

backgrounds.

A portion of their flyer 

read, “This is the time to make 
our schools, campuses, cities 
and all of Michigan a real 
sanctuary for immigrants, by 
coming out in mass numbers 
to defeat Trump’s attack on 
DACA, stop his deportations 
and 
demand 
that 
Trump 

resign or be removed BY ANY 
MEANS NECESSARY.”

Kate Stenvig, an organizer 

for BAMN, explained how 
similar strategies have created 
change and why it was crucial 
to continue protesting.

“We think that right now is 

our moment to pull out all of 
the stops to build a movement 
to defend DACA, to stop the 
policy of deportation and to get 
rid of Trump now,” she said. “I 
think that the fact that Trump 
did not think that he could get 
away with getting rid of DACA 
today but gave a 6-month 
window for Congress to act is 
a real credit to the movement 
and that so many of the people 
who have DACA are leaders.”

Stenvig also discussed how 

she saw the DACA repeal as 
an act of desperation on the 
Trump administration’s part.

“I 
think 
that 
we 
can 

definitely defend DACA and 
force Trump to resign or 
get 
removed 
because 
this 

is a disgusting, scandalous 
overreach 
on 
his 
part,” 

Stenvig said. “It’s also his next 
desperate attempt to show his 
racist base that he can deport 
a lot of people, but in reality, 
because of the movement in 
the last year, he’s been able 
to deport less people than 
Obama.”

The DACA policy was put 

into place during the Obama 
administration in 2012. 

William Lopez, a postdoctoral 

fellow at the School of Social 
Work, noted many undocumented 
immigrants and their families 
were 
betting 
against 
the 

possibility of a rescission when 
they made the choice to register 
for DACA.

“Two, four, six years ago, 

whenever folks applied, they 
were thinking, ‘If I give the 
government this information, will 
it be dangerous for my family?’,” 
he said. “And we, as advocates and 
those with citizen privilege, of 
course encouraged them to do so, 
believing it would be safe to do so, 
and now we find ourselves in this 
position of wondering, is it safe?”

Currently, there are almost 

800,000 people in the United 
States 
with 
Deferred 
Action 

for Childhood Arrivals status, 
and some are students at the 
University of Michigan. Many at 
the University are now worried 
Immigrations 
and 
Customs 

Enforcement will begin targeting 
students once their status expires.

Laura 
Sanders, 
co-founder 

of the Washtenaw Interfaith 
Coalition for Immigrant Rights 
and a lecturer at the School of 
Social Work, said she, too, wasn’t 
optimistic about any legislation 
Congress would pass regarding 
the program.

“The ball is in Congress’s court 

to act, but they haven’t acted in 
the past in a very positive way, 
which is what initiated the DACA 
executive order by Obama in the 
first place,” she said.

The 
Trump 
administration 

announced Tuesday morning it 
was ending DACA, the Obama-era 
immigration policy that provided 
a renewable, two-year deferral 
from deportation and work permit 
eligibility 
to 
undocumented 

immigrants who were brought to 
the country as minors.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions 

stated 
Tuesday 
the 
program 

“is being rescinded,” but the 
administration will provide a 
six-month window in which it 
will continue to renew the DACA 
status 
of 
individuals 
whose 

status is about to expire, meaning 
individuals will begin to lose their 
protected status permanently on 
March 5, 2018. President Donald 
Trump said Congress should use 
the window to come up with an 
additional plan.

“I have a great heart for these 

folks we’re talking about,” he 
said. “A great love for them — and 
people think in terms of children, 
but they’re really young adults. I 
have a love for these people and 
hopefully now Congress will 
be able to help them and do it 
properly.”

Khaalid 
Walls, 

communications director of ICE 
for the Northeastern Region, 
which 
includes 
Michigan, 

said current ICE policy was to 
generally avoid sensitive areas 
like schools.

“Current ICE policy directs 

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“...in the best interests of our country, and in keeping with the obligations of my office, the Department of Homeland Security will 

begin an orderly transition and wind-down of DACA, one that provides minimum disruption.” -President Donald Trump

Attorney 
General 
Jeff 

Sessions announced President 
Donald Trump’s plan to end the 
Deferred Action for Childhood 
Arrivals program, which was 
founded under former President 
Barack Obama in 2012, Tuesday 
morning. In a written statement, 
Trump 
called 
the 
program 

unconstitutional, 
calling 
for 

“an 
orderly 
transition 
and 

wind-down of DACA, one that 
provides minimum disruption.” 
Trump also acknowledged that 
the six-month delay will allow 

Congress to address the issue 
before the change takes effect.

Current DACA beneficiaries 

receive 
renewable 
two-year 

work 
permits 
through 
the 

Department 
of 
Homeland 

Security. 
Under 
Trump’s 

order, DHS will stop accepting 
applications; 
however, 

applications that have already 
been 
submitted 
will 
be 

processed, 
and 
those 
with 

current permits will be allowed 
to work until their permits 
expire.

On campus, undocumented 

students fear for their futures. 

William Lopez, a postdoctoral 

fellow in the School of Social 

Work, studies how communities 
respond to ICE raids. Lopez said 
that once DACA is eliminated, 
it is not clear what will happen 
to 
the 
information 
of 
the 

beneficiaries of DACA.

“On the one hand, very 

practically, we are worried about 
how a number of our students 
who are funded will continue 
to be funded when they don’t 
have social security numbers 
anymore,” 
Lopez 
said. 
“So 

how are they going to remain 
in school, mostly in graduate 
school, when they don’t have 
social security numbers, when 
their funding may be tied to 
something that needs a social 

security number?”

Once the program ends, the 

current and past beneficiaries 
of DACA will be vulnerable, 
as they have entrusted their 
information to the government 
in order to benefit from the 
program.

“At the time of application, 

many folks are worried, ‘Well 
what is going to happen with 
this information if DACA doesn’t 
stay around?’,” Lopez said. “So 
in six months, we will know, or 
at least have a sense of what the 
central government is going to 
do with that information. At that 
time, if not before, there will be 

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