Sanctuary city, meet sanctuary campus: Student Workers of Columbia, the Ivy League school’s graduate student union that boasts roughly 3,000 members, is in active contract negotiations with university administrators. At the same time, it’s demanding those administrators establish a “sanctuary campus” to protect foreign Hamasniks. The university’s response will provide another test of its backbone. An internal document obtained by our Jessica Schwalb indicates they are pressing for the following:
- Shield foreign students from “threat of deportation or detention” by refusing to provide information “to immigration authorities or any federal agency” without a subpoena.
- Stop “surveilling the student body” by barring public safety officials from “patrolling departamental [sic] and organizing spaces on campus” and destroying all protest-related records that include “personally identifying information.”
- Expand the international…
