On a sanctuary campus in a sanctuary state.
Via Campus Reform:
Activists and students in Berkeley, Calif. are pushing to establish the first-ever “sanctuary dorm” on the University of California-Berkeley campus, even though the campus itself already refuses to enforce immigration laws and offers plenty of resources to illegal alien students.
On April 10, members of the Berkeley chapter of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) addressed the school’s student government to call for the conversion of the existing Eshelman Hall to a sanctuary for illegal alien students and community members, as well as to encourage the student government to “send a political message to Donald Trump,” according to meeting minutes obtained by Campus Reform.
BAMN has accrued at least 500 signatures in support of the initiative, according to a report from KNBC-TV in Los Angeles.
“Here students at Berkeley are taking the lead and defending immigrants’ rights from ICE and attacks from Donald Trump and to recognize that everyone in this community with or without papers belong here and have the right to be here,” BAMN national member Yvette Felarca told KNBC-TV.
A judge ordered Felarca to pay $20,000 to the conservative group Judicial Watch earlier in April after the activist and teacher filed what the judge termed an “unreasonable” and “frivolous” lawsuit against the organization, BerkeleySide reported.