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San Diego State University’s (SDSU) student government has pledged funds to help illegal immigrants studying at the school pay to renew their enrollment in the DACA immigration program before the Oct. 5 deadline, the group announced on Facebook this week.
Associated Students SDSU wrote that the funding will provide students seeking DACA renewal with the $495 application fee.
The student government added that illegal immigrants “can apply confidentially” through the university’s Economic Crisis Response Team (ECRT) website, where the funds were allocated to by the Associated Students Financial Affairs Committee.
In a statement obtained by Campus Reform, Vice President of Financial Affairs at SDSU, D. Hayden Willis, indicates that “this is a one-time funding allocation not to exceed $130,000” and that it “could fund up to 262 student DACA renewals which we are told by the University should be sufficient.”
The source of the funding was unclaimed property funds via the State of California.
The news comes less than a month after President Trump announced that the program would be rolled back over a six-month period so that Congress would have time to either legalize or replace it.
"While DHS stopped accepting new DACA applications when President Donald Trump announced the end of the program on September 5 (with a six-month window for Congress to act), existing DACA recipients with permits that expire on or before March 5, 2018 are still eligible to apply for renewal, as long as they submit those applications by October 5," reports CNN.
The move was an effort to ease any financial burden on students who must apply by the October deadline to remain enrolled in the program.
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