'Sanctuary Campus' Protests: Students Across US Target Trump Immigration Plans

The country has spoken and Donald Trump is the next upcoming POTUS. While many people are against many of his intiatives, one being immigration, the public is not taking the threats lightly. After Mexico revealed that its preparing for mass deportations from the possible Immigration act, college students are speaking out.

According to FOX News Latino, college students around campuses around the Unites States marched and protested Wednesday, in an effort to influence administartors to protect students and employees against immigration action from president-elect Donald Trump.

Supporters utilized social media creating the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, in which organizers planned protest at more than 80 schools, including Middlebury College in Vermont and Yale University where hundreds of demonstartors came out.

The site reports that the actions continued days of demonstrations that have broken out in cities and high school campuses following Trump's election victory last week. The Republican's campaign promises included a vow to deport millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

"Can you imagine the fear that it would inflict on college campuses if having ICE agents walk into a campus becomes the status quo?" organizer Carlos Rojas of the group Movimiento Cosecha, said by phone from New Jersey. "It would be terrifying."

With January less than 2 months away, the fear of possible immigration action is real and students as well as many immigrants contributing to society are fearful.

"I'm very fearful," Miriam Zamudio, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico as a child, said by phone as she prepared to join a protest at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Zamudio is worried that the family information she provided on her application for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status will harm her parents, who are currently in the U.S. illegally.

"We don't know what Trump is going to do," Zamudio said. "We don't know if he is going to demand this information, and we want our administration and our school to stand with us."

Good news is that faculty and staff at several universities have signe dpetitions in support of making their campuses sanctuaries for people threatened with deportation or facing discrimination.