{"id":306622,"date":"2017-05-04T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-rutgers-student-wont-stand-alone\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:39:38","slug":"this-rutgers-student-wont-stand-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/this-rutgers-student-wont-stand-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"This Rutgers Student Won&#039;t Stand Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Carimer Andujar, a prominent student activist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, is under threat of deportation &#8212; but the response from faculty and students in her defense was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>On just 10 hours&#8217; notice, more than 150 students and professors crammed into the Rutgers faculty union office on April 25 to plan how they would defend their friend and comrade.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the possibility of detention and even deportation at a mandatory interview with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer May 9, Carimer chose to go public with her case.<\/p>\n<p>Though Carimer has dutifully filed all paperwork to renew her Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, it has now expired, leaving her even more vulnerable. Especially now,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2017\/04\/24\/how-activists-are-confronting-ices-terror\" target=\"_blank\">after another DACA student was deported<\/a>, every knock at the door can be an anxiety-filled experience.<\/p>\n<p>Carimer came to the US from the Dominican Republic with her family at the age of 4. As she puts it, &#8220;No one can tell me that this is not my home and that I don&#8217;t belong here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming solidarity at Rutgers from members of United Students against Sweatshops, Students for Justice in Palestine, the University Senate, the Muslim Student Association and many others isn&#8217;t surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Days after Trump was elected president in November, when more than 2,000 students and faculty at Rutgers University walked out of class to demand the school become a sanctuary campus, Carimer was among those leading the largest protest the campus had experienced in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Two months after the walkout for sanctuary, Carimer stood alongside Arab and Muslim students and professors at another mass rally and march, demanding &#8220;No ban. No wall.&#8221; And Carimer is a familiar face at the faculty union, the AAUP-AFT, where she participates in social and economic justice organizing with the students, staff and faculty of the Rutgers One coalition.<\/p>\n<p>As president of UndocuRutgers, which represents more than 400 undocumented Rutgers students, Carimer is an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/40444-this-rutgers-student-won-t-stand-alone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carimer Andujar, a prominent student activist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, is under threat of deportation &#8212; but the response from faculty and students in her defense was immediate. On just 10 hours&#8217; notice, more than 150 students and professors crammed into the Rutgers faculty union office on April 25 to plan how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}