ICE on college campuses

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The article I found that was posted on January 26th talked about how colleges and universities around the country are preparing to defend their students from potential immigration raids under Trump. The article also made it clear that they are not sure how much power the universities have to shield their students. School administrators have also issued announcements to assure their undocumented immigrant students that they will not help immigration and customs enforcement agents track them down. Colleges such as NYU, Portland State, and the University of Pennsylvania have embraced the "sanctuary" moniker and announced that ICE agents will need to get a court order to step foot onto their campuses. It has been shown that many colleges stand in solidarity with their undocumented students and want to protect them. ICE also has a policy that its agents should avoid going into and conducting operations at "sensitive locations", such as schools, churches, hospitals, etc. That policy has been broken numerous times already.
Recently in the Bay Area there has been reports of ICE on UC Berkeley's campus. On Sunday, January 28th, UC Berkeley's twitter account notified everyone that ICE was on their campus and to their understanding, they were invited to speak at the Global Entry Program about TSA checks and advice for international students. They made it clear that there was no raids. For many weeks now we have been informed about ICE raids in the Bay Area. Even though UC Berkeley made it clear that ICE was on campus not to raid, it was still scary for their undocumented students that they would allow ICE to be on their campus. ICE could have spoke to the college but they could've also did raids if they wanted to. The UC system is suppose to be "sanctuary system" and UC Berkeley allowing ICE agents on their campus is not creating a safe space for their undocumented students.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/26/colleges-universities-shield-students-immigration-deportation-raids/96968540/ 

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