The New School will be working with immigration attorneys to help navigate Trump’s executive order on immigration, President David Van Zandt said in a university-wide email.
“The New School welcomes students, scholars and staff from around the world, including the countries the Executive Order singles out for restriction,” Van Zandt said in the email.
The executive order bars Syrian refugees indefinitely, and blocks citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days. Those countries include: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
After the executive order was signed on Friday, thousands of people flooded airports across the country on Saturday in protest of the ban and to demand that security release those they had detained.
In the email sent on Sunday night Van Zandt assured The New School community that the school will support students and faculty members affected by the ban.
He also stated that International Student Services will be monitoring the situation closely and updating their website as any new information is revealed. ISS has already reached out to those students who are affected.
School officials did not immediately provide further information about their response.
Van Zandt highlighted the resolution made by the Board of Trustees last November in which the school promised to support, protect and admit students regardless of citizenship status.
“Our values as a community are more important than ever and I encourage you to remain vigilant in your support of those ideals and your fellow New Schoolers,” he wrote.
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