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AB 540 Student Position Essay

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Cal State University, San Marcos (CSUSM) paints itself as a champion of diversity and inclusiveness1. Recently, in an email entitled, Enhancing Campus Support for Undocumented Students, which was sent out to our campus community on March 28, 2017 these ideals were showcased. In this opinion piece, I am going to briefly address some of the points made about the AB 540 student population on campus; Specifically, their limitation to paid student positions on campus and how despite CSUSM efforts to appear diverse and inclusive it falls short from these ideals. First, CSUSM made clear in the AB 540 Student Support Services Status Update and Action Plan that under state law, AB 540 students cannot be afforded with paid student assistant positions, …show more content…

At some level, AB 540 students are being told that at this moment CSUSM’s hands are tie metaphorically speaking. For how much longer will AB 540 students must wait before they can access paid student positions on campus? Looking at CSUSM efforts to support minority groups on campus the answer might be a very long time. Take for example the Black student center or the Latin@ center, it took years before CSUSM recognized that these minority groups needed a space on campus which they could call their own. Think about this for a moment. CSUSM has been in operation since 1989, but did not consider carving a space on this campus for students of color until recently. When talking about AB 540 students CSUSM seems to be doing the same. Meanwhile, other students on campus are being afforded with the privilege of having immigration authorities in a non-enforcement capacity visit campus so that they can learn about that line of work; this obscures the fact that for AB 540 students this branch of law enforcement has a symbolic capacity in their lives. For the most part it represents an oppressive regime that separates families and stirs terror in their communities. To say this differently, the oppressive and exclusive climate that AB 540 students experience outside of CSUSM’s walls is being cultivated on

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