Georgetown University College Republicans (GUCR) became a member of the Mass Deportation Coalition on Sept. 2, joining a national advocacy coalition of conservative organizations pushing the Trump administration to dramatically expand immigration enforcement and carry out at least one million deportations in 2026.
GUCR is now listed as a coalition partner alongside more than 100 conservative organizations and political groups, including the Heritage Foundation, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and several state and local College Republican organizations.
GUCR did not respond to the Voice’s request for comment in time for publication.
GUCR’s decision to join the coalition comes months after the organisation faced campus backlash over a series of social media posts, including a now deleted post stating that Muslims have “no place in American society,” and that their religion is “incompatible with our Christian Nation.” GUCR later said its executive board had been unaware of the post and that it was inconsistent with the organization’s values.
Georgetown administrators reaffirmed the university’s commitment to religious diversity and condemned Islamophobia. As of fall 2025, 13.78% of Georgetown students were nonresidents.
The coalition is advocating for what it calls the second phase of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, arguing that immigration enforcement should move beyond prioritizing people with criminal records to also target other deportable immigrants, including people with final orders of removal and visa overstays. The coalition has also called for increased workplace immigration enforcement and a “whole-of-government” effort to encourage self-deportation.
GUCR announced joining the Mass Deportation Coalition as part of the District of Columbia College Republican Federation (DCCR). Both DCCR and GUCR are listed separately as partners on the coalition’s website.
The coalition has set a goal of at least one million U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) interior removals in 2026, and in April, released a policy playbook outlining measures it says would establish the logistical and operational structure to further increase deportations in 2027 and 2028, ultimately seeking to exceed the scale of immigration enforcement under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Trump Administration’s mass deportation effort has led to an unprecedented increase in ICE detentions and deportations. From when Trump took office in January 2025 to July 2026, there was a 70% increase in detainees in ICE custody.
In 2026, at least 27 people died in ICE custody in detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz, which is reported to have held detainees in small cages as punishment. ICE agents also killed two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renée Good in 2026. Most recently in Houston, Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez was brought to an immigration detention center with a bullet in his back after being shot by an ICE officer.
Georgetown University College Democrats (GUCD) president Braedon Troy (CAS ’27) said they were appalled by the news that GUCR joined MDC.
“There are so many members of our Georgetown community who are immigrants, who are children of immigrants, who are international students, all who are here, perfectly, happily trying to live their lives,” Troy said. “We’re seeing GUCR from their ivory tower here at a university say ‘We want to go after those guys.’”
They also called for the university to sanction GUCR for joining the coalition.
“We believe that GUCR needs to be sanctioned and needs to have some clear punishment or some clear consequence to using the university name and branding,” Troy said. “They’re able to claim and be a part of—and insinuate that the university—in some way, supports this.”
