LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif. – Community college officials in one of California’s wealthiest towns are exploring ways to protect illegal immigrant students from President-elect Donald Trump.

Foothill College president Thuy Nguyen, an immigrant and lawyer, is requiring all requests for student records to funnel through her office and she plans to require a court subpoena before releasing any information. She’s also working with college officials to erase all references to student addresses or immigration status that are not required by law from school documents, the Mountain View Voice reports.

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The changes are among a host of ways the college and other area schools are working to shield illegal immigrant students from the federal government as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office Jan. 20. Foothill College is also among several schools that are considering or already have declared campuses as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrant students.

And while there is no clear definition or consensus of what a “sanctuary campus” is, “the legal ramification,” Nguyen said, “is basically a communication to the Trump administration that there will be resistance.”

“In many ways, ‘sanctuary’ is such a large label that, to some extent, it’s been both used by people who support the idea as a badge of honor and, at the same time, by people who oppose it,” Hiroshi Motomura, an immigration law expert at UCLA, told USA Today.

The news site notes that some colleges and school districts that have adopted the “sanctuary” status have voted to defy federal immigration officials, while others are simply offering services for illegal immigrants with no promises of protection.

“But some schools have implemented such policies without calling themselves sanctuary campuses, including the California State University system, Rutgers University and the University of Massachusetts,” USA Today reports.

In the weeks since Americans elected Donald Trump the next president of the United States, students have protested at colleges and high schools across the country in hopes of convincing officials to protect illegal immigrant students, but only a fraction of schools have established “sanctuary campuses,” Yahoo! News reports.

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“Though students at over 100 schools all across the country — from the Ivy League to some of America’s largest public universities — have petitioned and protested on behalf of sanctuary campuses, only 28 schools so far have chosen to adopt the label. Connecticut College, Wesleyan University, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania are part of a very small list of schools that now identify as sanctuary schools,” according to the news site.

In California, the Palo Alto Unified Schools’ board of trustees signaled strong support last Tuesday for establishing “safe sanctuaries” for students after parents penned a letter asking them to “show unusual courage in the face of great potential harm posed by the Trump administration” and urged them to take action.

At Foothill and De Anzia colleges, which are overseen by the same board, trustees issued a resolution calling on Trump to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program started by President Obama through executive action. DACA shields illegal immigrant who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. The Foothill and De Anzia trustees also vowed not to release student records unless required by law.

The trustees, however, have not declared the schools “sanctuary campuses,” the Mountain View Voice reports.

“When you talk about or work or serve communities that have always been living in fear or living within a level of anxiety and then now it’s accelerated, and rightly so that it’s accelerated in light of the language of our politics today, we have to do things that are really authentic and true to what they need — not surface work,” Nguyen said. “That’s why I think we have to be thoughtful around that process and not be too quick to react to certain things that may be popular to do but are not necessarily helpful.”

“What we are doing is exploring everything we could do that constitutes what one would call a sanctuary college without necessarily declaring that,” she said.