Undergraduate and graduate students, professors and St. Louis community members gathered for a brief “speak-out” with the objective of making Washington University a sanctuary campus Wednesday afternoon in the Danforth University Center.

We present this letter as faculty and graduate employees concerned about the safety and security of members of our Washington University community affected by the Trump administration’s attacks on Muslims specifically and undocumented people generally.

In conjunction with a growing national movement, a group of 30-40 demonstrators took to the Danforth University Center to call on the administration to make Washington University a “sanctuary campus.”