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June 19, 2018: UC President Janet Napolitano and Chancellor Gary S. May issue statements on the growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border of the United States and call out the government for playing politics with the lives of DACA recipients. [More …]

March 28, 2018: UC’s Statement of Principles in Support of Undocumented Members of the UC Community (issued in November 2016), in which the university says it will protect the privacy and civil rights of the undocumented members of the UC community and direct UC police departments not to undertake joint efforts with any government agencies to enforce federal immigration law. [More …]

March 28, 2018: Charles F. Robinson, general counsel and vice president of UC Legal Affairs, answers frequently asked questions about the university’s stance on federal immigration enforcement actions that could occur on UC property and provides information about how to respond in such a situation. [More …]

Jan. 23, 2018: Chancellor Gary S. May and Police Chief Joseph A. Farrow reiterate ��������’ position on immigration enforcement: Campus police will not conduct sweeps, nor assist in any federal raids or otherwise participate in efforts to detain suspected undocumented members of our university community. [More …]

Jan. 9, 2018: “This crucial decision allows nearly 800,000 DACA recipients to stay in the United States as lawsuits over the legality of the DACA rescission make their way through the courts,” the statement reads. “Unfortunately ... it does not negate, nor lessen, the urgent need for permanent protection” — so UC will keep fighting the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA, supporting legislation for permanent protection, and providing services and aid to UC’s undocumented students. [More …]

Sept. 5, 2017: Chancellor Gary S. May expresses grave disappointment in the White House decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He says �������� is home to a dedicated community of DACA students from across the globe, and that the university’s AB 540 and Undocumented Student Center is a model of empowerment, opportunity and equity. [More …]

Aug. 17, 2017: “This terrorizing display of racism and hate (in Charlottesville, Virginia) has raised questions about the limits on freedom of expression. ... Incitement to violence is not speech. Terrorism is not dialogue. Freedom of speech is about new ideas, not old hate.” [More ...]

Aug. 11, 2017: In Washington Post op-ed, the UC president and former secretary of Homeland Security says she will never forget the first day of applications for DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, five years ago. “Tens of thousands of some of the best and brightest young people in our country applied to the program and celebrated their ability to live, work and learn in the only nation most of them had ever known,” Napolitano says. Now is the time to make this protection permanent, she concludes. [More ...]

Aug. 2, 2017: Chancellor Gary S.