Emergency Hotline: Harvard University and Agents Show

emergency hotline: Amid the uncertainty, colleges and universities are stepping up efforts to protect students enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, telling them to be hopeful but plan for the worst, according to The Chronicle Herald. Harvard University has opened a round-the-clock emergency hotline for immigrants in the program. Mixed signals from Washington over a possible agreement to preserve protections for young immigrants are increasing anxiety and confusion on college campuses, where the stakes are high. The University of Illinois at Chicago has posted advice on what to do if federal agents show up on campus. Nearly sixty college and university presidents sent a letter urging congressional leaders to make the program permanent out of moral imperative and a national necessity. UC Berkeley, the University of San Francisco and many other campuses are offering free legal advice to immigrant students now facing fears of deportation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.