Editor's Note: Equitable and humanizing research, policy, and practice with and for undocumented collegians in the United States

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Equitable and humanizing research, policy, and practice with and for undocumented collegians in the United States "Migration is beautiful." -Favianna Rodriguez, artist and activistThe Immigration Act of 1924 initated border patrol regulations at the U.S-Mexico border and a quota system in favor of white im/migrants (Ngai, 2004). Exclusion, racist nativism, xenophobia, and anti-im/migrant rhetoric targeting racially minoritized undocumented im/migrants in the United States are well documented (Pérez Huber et al., 2008;Pérez Huber, 2021). In recent decades, collegians who are undocumented have been direct targets of exclusionary legislation and emboldened anti-im/migrant rhetoric, causing hostile sociopolitical and campus climates for those with liminal legal statuses (Gonzales,