UO Anti-ICE Coalition threatens May 1 student walkout
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The coalition demands that UO not use the Student Code of Conduct or UOPD to prosecute or arrest those who may "peacefully delay federal immigration enforcement operations on campus."
from the University of Oregon Anti-ICE Coalition
Students and workers delivered a petition to Johnson Hall April 10 signed by over 2,000 people that calls on the University of Oregon to adhere to the demands of the UO Anti-ICE Coalition.
“We have been told, behind closed doors, to instead accept the threat ICE poses to our community, to allow federal agents to move through our campus and our lives unopposed,” the coalition says in its letter addressed to the administration. “We reject this vision of our university.”
Students will walk out of classes on May 1 if the UO administration refuses to bargain on the following demands:
- The University of Oregon (UO) administration commits to using the UO Alerts system as compelled by the state of Oregon through HB 4079 as soon as possible, to be structured in a collaborative effort with student body and campus union representatives, and to ensure a comprehensive system is put in place that doesn’t accomplish the bare minimum.
- UO administration commits to not using the Student Code of Conduct or UO Police Department to prosecute or arrest any member of the UO community (student, faculty, or staff) who may engage in actions to assist fellow UO community members get out of harm’s way or peacefully delay federal immigration enforcement operations on campus.
- The UO administration agrees to the demands of the UO Latiné Student Coalition in full, including ensuring that the space they secure for a cultural center be student-owned and student-run.
- The UO administration meets its contractual obligation with UOSW to provide comprehensive safety plans for undergraduate student workers, explicitly in the event that ICE or federal officers of any kind are on campus, by meeting their demands as laid out in their Anti-ICE Demands Document.
The Anti-ICE Demands Document calls for:
- Providing leave time for student workers who are attending immigration hearings, meetings, or any other necessary leave relating to immigration;
- Refusing ICE from entering work sites or accessing employee records without a judicial warrant or subpoena;
- Sharing with the union what information they give to the federal government, and
- Consistently updating and discussing with the union changes in immigration policy and its impacts on student workers.
