5C students are reviving Know Your Rights Claremont, collaborating with local activists to organize educational clinics about immigrant rights.
Tag: Undocumented Immigrants
500 students, Claremonters protest as Supreme Court considers overturning DACA
As a Pomona College alumna in Washington D.C. stood in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday among the plaintiffs challenging President Donald Trump administration’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a group of 500 people gathered on the steps outside of Frary Dining Hall to
Pomona alum seeks help as cancer-surviving mother faces risk of deportation
Cristian Jose Padilla Romero PO ’18 seeks help as his mother, Tania Romero, is being held at an ICE detention facility. Tania is in imminent danger of deportation and faces health problems from being held in detention after surviving stage 4 cancer.
Controversy explained: Pitzer Board of Trustees member accused of profiting from ‘concentration camps’
Pitzer College’s “free wall” was painted over the weekend of Sept. 21 with a message accusing Pitzer trustee Robert Fairbairn of profiting from “concentration camps,” sparking a conversation among students about whether Pitzer’s financing adheres to its core values.