Support for the undocumented
As President-elect Donald Trump puts together the administration that will help transform his campaign pledges — including those on immigration — into action, Harvard’s community is coming together around members who might be affected. While Trump’s actual immigration policies are still unclear, his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants and revoke President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy has raised anxiety among Harvard’s undocumented students, as well as among their classmates, faculty members, and administrators who work with them. “There’s definitely anxiety, fear, frustration, some degree of anger, I would say,” said Maureen Martin, director of immigration services for the Harvard International Office, who is part of a group of Harvard administrators who have come together to coordinate the response on behalf of undocumented students. No one at the University knows precisely how many undocumented students are at Harvard, Martin said, because they aren’t asked to identify themselves. Several...