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• OVIS complies with immigration services -- failure to comply would lose If you do not have DACA and are inter- the college’s authorization to bring in ested in working, contact CoFIRED – students with visas. there may some possibilities. However, without work authorization it is nearly Traveling impossible to do this. Travel: DARTMOUTH Coalition For As of September 5th, 2017, the DACA Immigration Reform, Equality and program created under the admin- DREAMers (CoFIRED) istration of Barack Obama is in the process of being phased out. Tis means Dartmouth CoFIRED was founded in that advanced parole will no longer January 2014 as the advocacy channel, be issued, and any students currently support network, and voice for the traveling abroad should come back im- undocumented student at Dartmouth. mediately, or cancel if they had planned In the time before CoFIRED, public on traveling in the future. In the past, support for DREAMers came from the undocumented students have traveled Latinx community, the Pan-Asian com- without limitations within the United munity, and sometimes the Ofce of States, and should continue to be able to Visa and Immigration Services (OVIS). do so. Tis includes attending confer- Te only group on campus was an ences and domestic study programs. unreliable, unnamed and underground Always carry proof of legal residency system of DREAMers. within the United States, such as your work permit and a copy of your Social CoFIRED was created for and led by Security number. undocumented students and allies. You can contact CoFIRED at Dartmouth. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol: [email protected] if you want Because Dartmouth is within 100 to meet undocumented students, need miles from the Canadian border, it help navigating any ofce or are inter- is not unusual for border patrol to be ested in joining the immigration reform present. Although their presence is not movement. on campus, agents were reported to be conducting bus checks in White River Legal Assistance Junction. Exercise precaution when trav- CoFIRED partners with the Ofce of eling either by yourself or with family to Visa and Immigration Services (OVIS) the college. Any location in which you to provide legal advice, and sometimes are of-campus, whether it is a program pro-bono legal assistance. We work with or the airport, carries a degree of vulner- our outside law frm – Curran & Berger ability to immigration authorities. - to provide legal assistance. • Police and immigration authorities • Be on the lookout in the fall for con- have jurisdiction over interstate high- sultations on DACA renewal applica- ways tions. Tere are appointments available for individuals interested in receiving • In the possible case of outside author- free legal consultation. ities on campus attempting to make an arrest, they must be accompanied by • Historically, the college has not pro- the college’s Safety and Security ofcers. vided funding for personal legal services Know your rights. In the case of being for students, consult with OVIS in the stopped and questioned by ICE, exercise case of an emergency. caution by remaining silent and refusing to sign anything without a lawyer. 37 Constitutional rights are your rights too. Points of Contact on Campus OVIS (Office of Visa and Immigration Services) • Susan C. Ellison- Director • Email: [email protected] Office of Financial Aid • Patricia Briggs, Assoc Director of Financial Aid • Email: [email protected] OPAL (Office of Pluralism and Leadership) • Renata Baptista, Assistant Dean • Advisor of Latinx Students • Email: [email protected] Marcia Calloway • Associate Director and Advisor to International Undergraduate Students • Email: [email protected] Counseling & Human Development • Arlene Velez-Galan • Email: [email protected] 38 Why When You Say, “DeportT em,” You Really Mean, “I Don’t Care ifT ey Die” by BROWN A. LIEN FROM OUTER SPACE Troughout this past year – and for most come back, be present at their parents’ of my life - I have been confronted by funerals, or survive the journey they countless opinions regarding undocu - had to take in order to have a chance mented immigration. Tey range from at a better life. Yet, they still made that - physical and emotional support, to dehu choice. Tey wanted a better life for my - manizing and angry personal attacks; self and for my sister, a life that would but the one comment which always allow us to live. Rather than rely on a sticks out to me is, “Deport them back broken system that asked my family to to where they come from.” wait to live for another ffteen years, courageously, they chose for our family As an undocumented American (like to survive. every other American) I would like to tell you where I belong: with my parents So, when I hear people say, “deport and siblings in a safe environment where them,” or, “send them back,” I hear we can live. By ‘live,’ I mean its two dual a literal death sentence for over 11.7 defnitions: the mode which requires million individuals. More than that, the beating of my heart as well as the these individuals are not just impersonal contraction and expansion of my lungs, strangers. Tey are your friends from but also by living in an environment school, your neighbors, people you sit where I have the freedom to make my next to at church, people you whom own choices and the access to a decent shop alongside, and, ultimately, people life rather be hungry or be exploited who have become part of the American without the power to overturn those de - community. Can it really be so easy to cisions. Tat physical space is not where dismiss 11.7 million souls and cast them I was born. In order to keep ‘living,’ my back into danger, despair, and poverty? parents made the di fcult decision of to Has our society reached that point? leave everything behind (their extended family, their friends, their lives, and ev - erything they had ever known) without knowing if they would ever be able to 39 On the Importance of Safe Spaces by Kimberly I applied to Dartmouth on a whim. I Looking beyond the stereotypes of non-stop didn’t have a dream school, but Dart- beer pong and illicit frat parties, I started mouth was defnitely not it. After the warming up to the idea of going to Dart- decision letters came in, I found myself mouth. My mom and I sat at our dining choosing between Dartmouth and a table and cried when I discovered that a school that stresses its commitment to queer Korean-American female English “access, diversity, and inclusion.” Tis professor taught on campus. I found some other school had everything I wanted in safe spaces and sensed there were even more a strong social justice and activist com- not promoted on Dartmouth’s website or in munity. Not only did these communi- recruiting materials. Ultimately, the protest ties exist, but they were also respected that happened in President Hanlon’s ofce campus-wide. During a 45-minute over the Freedom Budget told me that there campus tour, a white cis man who was a was a community fghting for change at self-described jock introduced the group Dartmouth, andI wanted to be part of it. I to the school’s genderless bathroom couldn’t see all of the spaces and resources system, and explained the signifcance that existed at Dartmouth as easily as I could of the Women and Trans* Collective at the other school, but there were signs that being a safe space. It was customary these communities were here. I just didn’t to greet people using preferred gender and still don’t really know exactly where. pronouns, and “y’all” was almost always used in lieu of saying “you guys.” People Dartmouth needs these safe spaces. I need of color had their own residence hall, these safe spaces. Students with personal and classes on race and ethnicity were narratives that defy the traditional one actually taught by professors of color. our society propagates need places to gofor I sat in on an Asian American Women refuge, support, safety, and validation. in Literature class composed entirely Tese spaces need to exist in and outside of of Asian Americans. Tis was a school the classroom, and they need to be readily where I knew I’d fnd a place for myself. accessible to both current students and pro- spective ones. Dartmouth is far from being Dartmouth ofered an alternative a place that all of us can easily claim as our college experience: a traditional own. Yes, there is work being done to help one--traditional in a way that scares change this, but in the meantime, and even me, traditional in its perpetuation of after systematic change is made, those of us white supremacy, the patriarchy, and not fully embraced by our campus at large capitalism. Tis is not to say that the need and deserve safe spaces--somewhere we other school is free from this tradi- can call home. tion, but Dartmouth’s whole image is founded upon tradition in a way the other school is not. But I am here now, so obviously I chose Dartmouth in spite of all this. Part of my decision was because in tradition, there is money. More money means more fnancial aid, allowing Dartmouth’s student body to be more socioeconomically diverse and 50 percent students of color, while the small liberal arts school I had my eyes set on is far more white and afuent. 40 How to Be an Ally by KWILL STEP 1 Check your Privilege To be an ally you have to be willing to be critical of yourself, the way you were taught to think, and the world you live in.