Immigration Task Force Denounces Federal Agents Detaining and Deporting DACA Recipients

CFA members are alarmed over recent news that federal agents arrested and deported recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.  

Between January 1 and November 19, 2025, 261 people covered by DACA were arrested and 86 of them were deported, according to the Department of Homeland Security.  

A program created under the Obama Administration, DACA was designed to prevent unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children before 2012 from being deported if they pass federal background checks whenever their status needs to be renewed. California has the highest number of active DACA recipients out of all the states, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. 

CFA members are not aware of any CSU DACA recipients that have been abducted or removed, but we remain active and vigilant supporters of immigrant rights. 

The news hits the CFA Immigration Task Force especially hard considering its history. The Task force was established in early 2017 as a response to the political climate at that time, which called to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy and threatened to deport our students and their families. CFA advocates came together to discuss and identify campus and systemwide efforts to defend the rights of our documented and undocumented students, staff, faculty, and their families. 

CFA members will continue to fight and advocate for the rights, dignity, and success of our documented and undocumented students, staff, faculty and their families. We remain dedicated to ensuring our CSU campuses remain safe spaces for all.  

We will continue to push against actions and policies that separate families or undermine the rights of our documented and undocumented students and their families. We are committed to working with our state leaders to find solutions that protect the rights, safety, and well-being of our communities. 

In that vein, CFA members are holding the CSU accountable for the implementation of Senate Bill 98, which requires K-12 schools and higher education institutions to issue alerts if immigration enforcement authorities are present on campus. The governor approved the bill last September, but the CSU has not implemented standards for complying with it at a systemwide level.  

We urge the CSU to do everything possible to protect our immigrant communities. You can see our latest demands here.