Tell Universities: Protect Student Rights, Reject Trump’s Order
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Mar 11, 2025
They’re abducting students from our campuses.
On Friday, in a dystopian decision that will go down in history, a U.S. immigration judge ruled that Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported—purely for his political speech. But this isn’t over. Khalil can appeal and his legal team will continue to fight.
Two weeks after Khalil’s abduction, ICE ambushed Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk on the street as she was walking to iftar. And since then, the Trump administration has revoked 1,000+ student visas.
These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re part of a coordinated campaign to silence our voices through terror, chaos, and intimidation.
Trump’s new executive order explicitly targets students who speak up for Palestinian rights, threatening non-citizens with deportation and pressuring universities to monitor and report on student activists.
But universities don’t have to comply.
Universities have a responsibility to protect their students, and they must fight back against this fascist repression. You’ve collectively sent 921,000+ emails to university administrations so far, moving Tufts University to issue a statement of support for Rumeysa Ozturk.
We just expanded our action alert tool to target about 100 universities nationwide, which you can email with a click.
Demand that every university protect its students and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.
TAKE ACTION:
Tell university presidents to protect their students now
The Trump administration is testing how far they can push this repression. If universities stand firm and refuse to collaborate with ICE, we can create sanctuary for students exercising their constitutional rights.
Here’s what’s at stake:
- Students deported for human rights activism
- University administrations pressured to monitor and report on students
- Constitutional rights violated through targeted enforcement
- A chilling effect on all campus advocacy for justice
While Israel bombs hospitals in Gaza as recently as this weekend—striking the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on Palm Sunday—students in the U.S. face persecution for even speaking up about these atrocities.
Universities have the power to say NO.
TELL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS: Protect student rights and establish sanctuary campuses
Our movement is growing stronger despite these intimidation tactics. With each student they target, more people are waking up to the reality that our government is willing to trample constitutional rights to shield Israel from accountability.
Every message to university leadership builds pressure for them to take a stand. It only takes 30 seconds, but it could protect countless students from persecution.
Onward to liberation,
NASH
Digital Strategist
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