In 2015 UW president Ana Mari Cauce made a public statement in honor of National Institutions Coming Out Day that she wholeheartedly supports undocumented students.
“With that, it almost has given a sense of relief and permission for people on campus to say ‘OK, if my president says that the institution supports undocumented students, it gives them permission to do that as well,’” said Magdalena Fonseca, associate director of the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC), an inclusive space for community groups to engage with each other and foster their development as students. “I love that, because you’re not going to get that across many institutions of higher education.”
Undocumented students often arrive in the United States without inspection due to border-crossing, travel by plane, or overstaying the duration of a visa.
