University of California union members are urging the system to take more concrete steps to protect international workers by barring federal agents from campuses and providing financial and legal assistance for workers facing immigration status changes.

More than 13,000 members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents 48,000 student researchers, employees and postdoctoral researchers, sent a petition to the UC Office of the President last week demanding that it “protect vulnerable international workers from the Trump administration’s racist and xenophobic policies.”

Their petition comes as the Trump administration has moved to terminate some student visas and ramped up immigration enforcement around the state. So far this year, at least 100 scholars and recent graduates acros

See Full Page