A few residents in Colorado Springs, Colorado, have started an online petition to change the name of a local street that shares its name with President Donald Trump.

The petition calls for Trump Avenue to be changed to Immigrant Way. It was started by Nina Ellis Frischmann and her team to complete a task in the weeklong Gish international scavenger hunt.

The task: "Find a place on the map or a street name that celebrates a known racist or slave-holder or war criminal or simply a place name that uses a derogatory term and petition to have it changed to an inoffensive alternative," says Gish.

The nine people on the scavenger hunt team said President Donald Trump fits the racist and war criminal categories. Although the street is not named after the 45th president — the houses on the street were built in the 1950s and 60s — visitors to Colorado Springs might be confuse the intention, says the petition.

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Frischmann and her team said they wanted to change the name to celebrate immigrants. The petition calls President Trump’s comments about immigrants and the family separation policy at the border “racist."

“These are human rights violations, making him a war criminal,” says the petition.

Despite the petition being part of the scavenger hunt, the team is committed to seeing through the change. Frischmann hopes the petition receives 100 signatures by the end of the week — it was at 75 on Wednesday night — and hopes to bring it in front of the local city council.

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If that doesn’t work, she wants to get more signatures to put the decision on the April 2020 ballot.

“Many of my students are Dreamers, I have students who are international students, and it’s important for me for all of my students to feel included, to feel like they belong in my classroom,” said Frischmann, a doctoral candidate and a world history teacher at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. “This would be a step beyond what I do in my classroom and taking that focus into advocacy in my local community.”

It is unclear if Colorado Springs city officials are aware of the petition. They did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.