Argumentative Essay On Sanctuary Campus

A recently surfaced issue surrounding higher education is that of sanctuary campuses. Broadly, a sanctuary campus is defined as a “college or university that has instituted policies to protect undocumented students, faculty, and staff from the threat of deportation,” (“Here’s Where the Sanctuary Campus Movement Stands”). However, each universities’ status is unique to their understanding of “sanctuary.” Interpretations of this status ranges from “safe spaces” protecting students against Xenophobic attitudes to resisting attempts of Federal deportation. The issue of sanctuary campuses is controversial and should matter as everyone is affected by these policies. Additionally, this issue calls into question the University rights, and if their …show more content…
Many of these individuals didn’t know they were illegal until they became teenagers and found they lacked social security numbers. This fact that they grew up in the United States as Americans, unaware of their citizenship status, strengthens the Left’s argument for instituting sanctuary campus on universities. These individuals had no choice but to be raised illegally in the United States, so it comes into question whether they should be punished for a choice they as children didn’t make. However, there are legal processes that need to be followed and a path towards citizenship that they can take. Should these students have the same rights as the legal citizens of this country do? This is a large concern of conservatives and Republican Lawmakers. There is no way to get an accurate number of the amount of people, especially students, that are in the country illegally. No one can know how many students will be using these resources and how many people are undocumented, which is a crucial issue. “Sanctuary campus” status encourages people to stay in the United States and benefit from being undocumented instead of pushing themselves to become citizens. Ultimately, this questions the moral obligation that a university has to its …show more content…
Should colleges provide all the programs and resources they do for their legal students? Or are they exclusively institutions of higher learning? As more people have been attending universities in the United States, those universities have been competing for students, but the curriculum only goes so far to attract students. To make themselves more unique and desirable, colleges have started adding unique programs and classes, refining their technology, improving and expanding the infrastructure, and implementing social programs and policies for inclusivity. While these features attract all students to their schools, the “sanctuary campus” status would attract students who appreciate this “inclusivity” as well as encourage undocumented students to attend. Undocumented students, however, are unable to qualify for in-state tuition and do not qualify for many scholarships. They would be paying close to the full tuition and creating a profit for the school. This begs the question of whether the university cares about the students or the potential profit that those students will