rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-sanctuary-campus-petition?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-sanctuary-campus-petition' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> YDSA at UWM https://actionnetwork.org/groups/uwm-ydsa https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/712/951/normal/Sanctuary_Campus_Petition_(2025)_Banner.png We — the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Milwaukee community members and organizers — call for our campus under your administrative leadership to reaffirm the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Guiding Value of diversity by declaring and implementing a plan to protect our students, staff, and community members as thoroughly as possible. We demand sanctuary on campus for all marginalized students, as well as for undocumented and DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals) beneficiary students. According to the Migration Policy Institute, as of 2019, there are approximately 4,000 DACA beneficiary students in Wisconsin institutions, and approximately 300 undocumented and/or DACA beneficiary students currently here at UW-Milwaukee. As a result of the policies enacted by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, we have seen mass arrests, imprisonments, and deportations of students and community members in cities across the United States. This has prompted terror for our own students and their families, and it is now a crucial time to defend the protective policies that are anticipated to end under their executive order. A previous version of this petition was wrongfully rejected by Chancellor Mone and the university during Trump’s first presidency. We will not stand for compliance with the president’s racist and reactionary policies. Our demands, as listed in the letter below, demonstrate the minimum that UWM must do to protect its most vulnerable students. We call on Chancellor Gibson to end this pattern of compliance and to implement policies that foster a safe environment for all students in pursuit of higher education https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-sanctuary-campus-petition