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AAUP Denounces Decision to End DACA Program

September 06, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

AAUP
September 5, 2017

In response to President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) president Rudy Fichtenbaum issued the following statement.

The American Association of University Professors denounces in the strongest possible terms the decision by the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). This decision marks a continuation of the anti-immigrant racist policies that the administration had supported from the start.

Read the full statement at the AAUP website here.