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Yale’s student government is demanding that university leaders divest from companies with ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A statement the student government approved during its last meeting “characterized recent ICE actions as ‘inhumane and illegal surveillance, deportation, and detention of our neighbors,'” Yale Daily News reported April 6.
Yale-invested companies reported as linked to ICE include Palantir, Target Hospitality, Flock Safety, and TDR Capital.
“I hope that this statement shows that ICE’s destruction is on students’ minds. Just about every student group on campus seems to be hosting a teach-in, organizing a fundraiser for migrant justice,” a student organizer with the Endowment Justice Collective, which sponsored the statement and presented it to the student government, told the Daily.
The vote comes after an effort in late February during which roughly 100 students gathered outside of President Maurie McInnis’ office to deliver letters to trustees calling for divestment ahead of their board meeting, the Daily reported.
In January, Yale’s advisory committee on investor responsibility “rejected a proposal for divestment from Palantir over its support for ICE and genocide in Palestine, five hours after an ICE agent murdered Renée Good in Minneapolis,” Yale Endowment Justice posted on X.
“This morning, ICE abducted a neuroscience researcher at Columbia from her on-campus apartment. And for many months, ICE has terrorized our neighbors in New Haven with raids at workplaces, courthouses, and homes across our city,” the post added.
As The College Fix reported at the time, the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility rejected all three of the Endowment Justice group’s requests for divestment.
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