BROOKLYN COLLEGE–The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Brooklyn College presented a joint resolution at a Dec. 5 Cabinet meeting calling on the BC and CUNY administration to reaffirm the rights of undocumented students in response to Donald Trump’s victory at the 2024 presidential election on Nov. 5.
President-elect Trump, who is slated to return to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, has repeatedly promised to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history,” according to the Sunday Times, and has more recently confirmed the use of the military to carry out the plan, according to a post on his social media platform Truth Social. To advocates, this directly puts undocumented people across the country, and those at CUNY schools such as BC, in a precarious and challenging position.
“In a just world, this document is not revolutionary. It calls simply for an affirmation of the rights undocumented students from all branches of CUNY governance, an effort from our administration to make more resources available to groups vulnerable to the policy goals of the Trump administration,” Dylan Karlowski, USG events director and the main author of the proposition, told The Vanguard. “It is important to the students afraid for their safety that their administrators at every level stand behind them unflinchingly. Students give their trust to CUNY every day they come to class, it must be repaid in the efforts of CUNY to make them feel safe and welcome.”
